Braille was invented by Louise Braille

1. BRAILLE

2. WHAT IS BRAILLE?
 Braille is a system of raised dots that can be read
with the fingers by people who are blind or who
have low vision.
 Teachers, parents, and others who are not visually
impaired ordinarily read braille with their eyes.
 Braille is not a language. Rather, it is a code by
which many languages—such as English, Spanish,
Arabic, Chinese, and dozens of others—may be
written and read.
 Braille is used by thousands of people all over the
world in their native languages, and provides a
means of literacy for all.

3. WHO INVENTED BRAILLE
CHARACTERS?
 Louise Braille
 He was accidentally blind at three.
 When Louis Braille entered the school for the
blind in Paris, in 1819, he learned of a system
of tangible writing using dots, invented in
1819 by Capt. Charles Barbier, a French army
officer.
 It was called night writing and was intended
for night-time battlefield communications.
In 1824, when he was only 15 years old,
Braille developed a six-dot “cell” system.

4.  He used Barbier’s system as a starting point
and cut its 12-dot configuration in half.
 The system was first published in 1829; a more
complete elaboration appeared in 1837.

5.  Braille’s system was immediately accepted
and used by his fellow students, but wider
acceptance was slow in coming.
 The system was not officially adopted by the
school in Paris until 1854, two years after
Braille’s death.

6.  A universal Braille code for the English-
speaking world was not adopted until 1932,
when representatives from agencies for the
blind in Great Britain and the United States met
in London and agreed upon a system known
as Standard English Braille, grade 2.
 In 1957 Anglo-American experts again met in
London to further improve the system.