#braille day

[thephoblographer]

Celebrate Braille Day With 8 Visually Impaired Photographers and Their Stunning Works

Photography, as an art form, is entirely dependent on vision. But what happens when you don’t see the world as you should? While this may sound like the end of a career to many, it, in fact, is not. So, on this Braille Day, we are bringing you a round-up to showcase the creativity, rigor, and dedication of visually impaired photographers and those who have issues with their vision. We do hope…

[juliehowlin]

Braille

The original Braille system had no letter w because that letter was not part of the basic French alphabet.

10 things you might not know about Braille:

[thepastisalreadywritten]

𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗬 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗛𝗗𝗔𝗬, 𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗜𝗦 𝗕𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘! 📖

A French teacher and inventor, Louis created the Braille system — a tactile code of raised dots that unlocked the world of reading and writing for the visually impaired, including himself.

Today, his groundbreaking invention empowers millions to chase their dreams and shape a brighter future.

At just three years old, Louis Braille suffered an eye injury in his father’s workshop. The wound became infected, leading to total blindness.

During his era, blind individuals relied on tracing raised print letters to read — a method that was slow and rarely mastered.

As a student at the National Institute for Blind Youth in Paris in 1825, Braille sought a better system.

Outside of class, he experimented with punching holes in paper to create a more efficient reading and writing system.

His breakthrough came after meeting Charles Barbier, a former artillery officer who demonstrated a system of embossed dots representing sounds, designed for soldiers to share messages silently in the dark.

Inspired, Braille adapted and refined the idea, spending three years perfecting a code of embossed dots to represent letters and numbers.

By 1824, Braille had developed his revolutionary system and published "Procedure for Writing Words, Music, and Plainsong in Dots."

Although initially supported at his institute, a new director banned its use in 1840, fearing it might render teachers obsolete.

Despite this, Braille continued teaching subjects like history and algebra until he died in 1852.

Recognition came posthumously, with France officially adopting his system in 1854 and its global spread by the 1870s.

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REFERENCES:

[1] Braille World (n.d.). History of Braille.

Source: brailleworks.com

[2] Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2025). Louis Braille. Encyclopedia Britannica.

Source: britannica.com

[3] Musée Louis Braille (n.d.). Braille the inventor.

Source: museelouisbraille.com

[4] Roth, G. A., & Fee, E. (2011). The invention of Braille. American journal of public health, 101(3), 454.

Source: doi.org

[murderousink23]

01/04/2025 is Ribbon Skirt Day 🇨🇦, World Braille Day 🌎, World Hypnotism Day 🌎, National Spaghetti Day 🍝🇺🇸, National Trivia Day 🇺🇸, National Fruitcake Toss Day 🇺🇸

[flywolf33]

I'm reading a horror story in braille. I can just feel something bad is going to happen.

[rabbitcruiser]

World Braille Day

World Braille Day celebrates the birth of Louis Braille, inventor of the reading and writing system used by millions of blind and partially sighted people all over the globe.

Though not a public holiday in any country, World Braille Day provides an opportunity for teachers, charities and non-government organizations to raise awareness about issues facing the blind and the importance of continuing to produce works in Braille, providing the blind with access to the same reading and learning opportunities as the sighted.

History of World Braille Day

Louis Braille, the inventor of braille, was born in France on January 4th, 1809. Blinded in both eyes in an accident as a child, Braille nevertheless managed to master his disability while still a child. Despite not being able to see at all, he excelled in his education and received scholarship to France’s Royal Institute for Blind Youth.

During his studies, inspired by the military cryptography of Charles Barbier of the French Army, he developed a system of tactile code that could allow the blind to read and write quickly and efficiently. Braille presented the results of his hard work to his peers for the first time in 1824 when he was just fifteen years f age. In 1829, he published his first book about the system he had created, called “Method of Writing Words, Music, and Plain Songs by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged for Them”.

The braille system works by representing the alphabet letters (and numbers) in a series of 6 dots paired up in 3 rows. The simplicity of his idea allowed books to start being produced on a large scale in a format that thousands of blind people can read by running their fingertips over the dots. Thanks to this, blind students have the opportunity to be educated alongside their peers as well as read for pleasure just as easily as any seeing person can.

How to celebrate World Braille Day

As incredible as braille is, and as much as it offers blind and partially sighted people, braille books must stay within the country where they are produced because ofrestrictive international copyright laws. Because braille books cannot be shared across borders, the blind cannot read any books that are not produced within their own country. Unfortunately, at present only 5% of all published materials get produced in accessible formats, which means that under 10% of all blind children in developing countries go to school due to the shortage or lack of teaching materials.

The Marrakesh Treaty is the name of an international agreement finalized in June 2013 that would allow copyright exceptions for published works to be made widely available in accessible formats. The implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty will allow blindness organizations to share their resources with other organizations in developing countries that may not have the resources to produce books for their blind citizens.

Then, schools for the blind in wealthier countries would be able to send books to schools in poorer countries so blind children who cannot afford to buy braille books will still have access to the textbooks needed for them to finish school. For example, Spain’s ONCE (Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles, or The Spanish Foundation for the Blind) could make their braille library available to blindness organizations in all of the Spanish-speaking countries in South America, thus saving the costs of reproducing the exact same books for each separate country.

However, these resources can be shared only if this treaty becomes law in all of the countries around the world.

This coming World Braille Day, celebrate Louis Braille’s achievements and help millions of blind and partially sighted people everywhere by writing a letter to your government representatives encouraging them to make this treaty a reality.

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[nationaldaysbydigitalhygge]

January 4th, 2025:

Free Flower Basket Day

National CanDo Da

National Missouri Day

National Play Outside Day

National Spaghetti Day

National Trivia Day

Perihelion Day

Pop Music Chart Day

Tom Thumb Day

Weigh-In Day

World Braille Day

World Hypnotism Day

[luvnotpercival]

Making a Christmas card for my friend in braille

[starfieldcanvas]

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C. R. A. B.

[blodeuweddschild]

Autism moment I wanted to go upstairs and be in bed by 11 but I’ve only just realised it’s 1 in the morning after after getting so absorbed in my work but hey I finished part of it

[yarnings]

Happy National Ribbon Skirt day!

And happy Braille day to the rest of the world.

[razzek]

To get better sleep and give myself back at least a little time to just be alone with my thoughts, I bought a little clock radio for my room that has a tuner and saves favorite radio stations. I am obsessed with it now. XD Forgot that I really like radio. Planning to get another one for the living room so I can sit in my chair and just push a button to change stations. It’s been my dream since every time I’ve been in a car with a radio tuner. XD

[guinevereslancelot]

this eye care routine is a lot

[subby-sab]

Today is 4th of January.

Today is National Spaghetti Day, World Braille Day, World Hypnotism Day.

[murderousink23]

01/04/2023 is Ribbon Skirt Day 🇨🇦, World Braille Day 🌎, World Hypnotism Day 🌎, National Spaghetti Day 🍝🇺🇸, National Trivia Day 🇺🇸

[brailleday]

Introducing Young Children to Braille.

The Literacy Trust has produced a free resource for EYFS called ‘Introducing Young Children to World Braille Day’.