Why is braille important?
Braille is a unique tactile writing system of raised dots that blind and partially sighted people can read by touch. The ability to understand braille means that people with sight loss have the same access to written word as sighted people and are able to enjoy reading for life.
Why is braille important?
Learning braille from a young age has important benefits for children with vision impairment. It can help with literacy, as braille is a much better way to understand punctuation, grammar and spelling than audio.
To just pick up a book and be able to read it is a lovely thing in life that everybody should experience. Without braille that’s never going to be accessible to her.
Lily-Grace and her mum explain how important braille and reading is to their lives
Watch Jessica and Isabella tell you about their lives with sight loss and how learning braille is helping them thrive
At RNIB, our transcription service helps people who have lost their sight to continue reading by transcribing books and other printed materials into braille and other accessible formats (like audio and print with larger font sizes). Readers can also access more than 11,000 books in braille through the RNIB Library for free.
Hold a Dots Raise Lots event
Celebrate braille by going all dotty for a good cause. By holding a Dots Raise Lots event, you’ll be raising funds which can support our braille and reading services. Register today to give the gift of reading to thousands of blind and partially sighted children and adults and help spread awareness about the marvel of braille.
A young boy in dotty sunglasses and clothes, smiling, with his arms outstretched towards the sky.
