World Braille Day

About World Braille Day

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2026 InternationalJan 4 International Sun, Jan 4Observances Holiday 2025 InternationalJan 4 International Sat, Jan 4Observances Holiday 2024 InternationalJan 4 International Thu, Jan 4Observances Holiday 2023 InternationalJan 4 International Wed, Jan 4Observances Holiday 2022 InternationalJan 4 International Tue, Jan 4Observances Holiday
Summary
Highlights the importance of this form of communication for the visually impaired.

What Is the Significance of World Braille Day?

World Braille Day celebrates the importance of Braille as a medium of communication for people who are blind and visually impaired. The day aims to promote awareness of the braille language, which strives to bridge the big divide between ordinary and specially-abled people.

World Braille Day commemorates the birth anniversary of Louis Braille, who is popularly known for inventing a language used by blind and visually impaired people.

The inventor of a widely used touch system of reading and writing for blind people was born at Coupvray, France. Permanently blinded at the age of three by a leatherworking awl in his father's saddle-making shop, Braille developed a system of writing that used, ironically, an awl-like stylus to punch marks in paper that could be felt and interpreted by people who are blind. The system was largely ignored until after Braille died in poverty, suffering from tuberculosis, at Paris, Jan 6, 1852.

It was the United Nations which, in its proclamation in 2018, decided to observe the event of World Braille Day on January 4th.

You can observe the day by spreading the importance of Braille on social media, or learn more about Braille at home with resources like those from the Perkins School for the Blind — which includes a fun rap song, mnemonics to remember dot patters and even free books.

All events on January 4th 2025