WORLD BRAILLE DAY

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• 4th January is celebrated as World Braille Day to raise awareness about the importance of Braille as a means of communication for visually impaired and partially sighted people.
  • The day marks the birth anniversary of French educator Louis Braille, who invented the Braille script in 1809.

Braille script

• Braille is a system of reading and writing by touch used by the blind.
• It consists of arrangements of dots that make up letters of the alphabet, numbers, and punctuation marks.
• Braille was first developed in the late 1820s by a young Frenchman named Louis Braille.
• He created Braille by modifying a system of night writing which was intended for military use.

Related News

• For visually impaired litigants, the Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi government to provide court documents in Braille script.
• The Delhi High Court stated that the ‘Right to justice authorizes the parties with a communication mode and language that they can interpret’.
• To protect the rights of visually impaired litigants, the Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi government to provide them with the court documents in Braille script.
• The High court stated that “It is required to make available all essential facilities to enable the recording of testimonies, arguments or opinions given by persons with disabilities in their preferred language and means of communication”.

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