World braille Day 2024

World braille Day 2024 : Every year on 4th January World Braille Day is observed to give importance to the blind and partially sighted people. On this day the inventor of the Braille, Louis braille was born in the year 1809 in France.

Introduction about World Braille Day 2024

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 was invented in 19th Century by Louis braille, hence named after its inventor. It’s used by blind and partially sighted people to read in a visual font.

United Nation General Assembly in the year 2018 announced January 04 to observe as World Braille Day to celebrate the birth anniversary of Louis Braille, who invented that Braille Literacy at the age of 15 years.

World Braille Day 2024 is about to celebrate 7th time this year. The main idea behind its celebration is to create more and more awareness about the importance of the day.