It not only provided practical benefits, but also helped change the cultural status of blindness. As the first writing system designed for blind people’s needs, Braille was a groundbreaking new accessibility tool.
The idea of tactile reading was not entirely new, but existing methods based on sighted systems were difficult to learn and use. In a society that did not value disabled people in general, blindness was particularly stigmatized, and lack of access to reading and writing was a significant barrier to social participation. The writing system of raised dots used by visually impaired people was developed by Louis Braille in nineteenth-century France. The invention of Braille was a major turning point in the history of disability.
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