World Braille Day seeks to raise awareness about the importance of braille as a means of communication for blind and partially sighted people. Braille is a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols that uses six dots to represent letters and numbers.
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Today is World Braille Day. Braille has aided millions of visually-impaired & partially sighted people in their quest for equality, education and independence. Let's pledge to make our world more accessible to the visually-impaired & ensure full realisation of their human rights https://t.co/Wp2bxBn0Ld
Today is the @UN’s World Braille Day!
Here’s five things you might not know about Braille:
1. Braille is an alphabet not a language
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#WorldBrailleDay https://t.co/cvG77kFI4U
Don’t miss tonight discussion with the Executive Director of Ghana Blind Union, @GhanaBlind on Braille Literacy as we celebrate World Braille Day.
#WorldBrailleDay #UnitedNations #SDG4 #SDGs #TheExplorersGlobal https://t.co/VNV4t8h80B
Happy #WorldBrailleDay!
Today is an opportunity to reflect the importance of braille as a means of communication for the visually impaired, and also to understand the work that still needs to be done in society to support braille users today.
Learn more: https://t.co/AIqorO3pUZ https://t.co/3VRcdIyWyD
World Braille Day is recognised to bring awareness to the human right of blind and partially sighted people. The UN defines Braille as the essential tool for education, freedom of expression, and communication that gives the social inclusion right of every person. https://t.co/mNGuSry4qB
It’s #WorldBrailleDay in honour of 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 https://t.co/nbWTM57Uso https://t.co/rPmMdmAF6Q
Please join us in recognising World Braille Day
Today, January 4th is the birthdate of Louis Braille and recognises his contribution in helping visually impaired people to read and write
Thank you https://t.co/vC7nujCfpu