Braille: accessibility improves in Brazil, but still needs to advance
Almost 200 years ago, Braille started allowing blind or low vision people to write and read. On the World Braille Day, January 4th, Agência Brasil talked to specialists who show that the country has improved accessibility for these people, but still needs to move forward. "I usually say that mankind had a great conquest with the invention of writing and, during all this time, there were attempts to develop a writing for the blind. The great conquest came with Braille. From that moment on, blind people started to participate in history", says the member of the World Council and of the Iberian-American Braille Council, Regina Oliveira. According to Regina, Braille is a fundamental tool for literacy and independence for blind people and people with low vision. She was born with glaucoma a...