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World Braille Day 2025
- 07 Jan 2025
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World Braille Day, celebrated on 4th January, commemorates the birth of Louis Braille, the inventor of Braille, a tactile code that empowers blind and visually impaired individuals to access written information.
- Louis Braille: Louis Braille (1809–1852) was born in France, and lost his sight at the age of three.
- At ten, he received a scholarship to the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, where he developed the Braille system after being inspired by an army captain's "night writing" system.
- The "night writing" system, created by Charles Barbier de la Serre in 1815, used 12 raised dots and was designed for soldiers to communicate silently in the dark.
- At ten, he received a scholarship to the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, where he developed the Braille system after being inspired by an army captain's "night writing" system.
- Braille System: It uses 6 raised dots in a 3 × 2 matrix to form characters, distinguishable by their arrangement.
- Braille can be written with various tools, including slates, braille writers, and electronic devices.
- Despite the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and voice technologies, Braille remains crucial for independence, especially for those congenitally blind.
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