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The World Blind Union joins the rest of the world in celebrating the World Braille Day, on 4 January 2021, the third year since it was officially designated by the UN General Assembly as a day to raise awareness of the importance of braille as a means of communication in the full realisation of the human rights of people with visual impairments.

What is Braille?

Braille is a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number, and even musical, mathematical, and scientific symbols. Braille (named after its inventor Louis Braille in France in the 19th century) is used to make information accessible to people who use this means of reading and writing, on an equal basis with those who access the same information through a visual source.

Braille is essential in the context of education, freedom of expression and opinion, as well as social inclusion, as reflected in articles 21 and 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

As part of the national commemoration of World Braille Day 2021, the INR organizes, in the afternoon of 19 January 2021, Tuesday, an online session entitled "Screen and Dot – The centrality of braille in a changing world", through the Zoom platform and broadcast on the channel of YouTube INR.