Dec 3, 2018

Index Newsletter

Today is the International Day for Persons with Disabilities

The theme is: Empowering persons with disabilities and ensuring inclusiveness and equality.

Mainstream the rights of the blind

Mainstream the rights of the blind
The World Blind Union joins these celebrations and takes the opportunity to influence governments, development partners and UN agencies to mainstream the rights of blind and partially sighted persons in their planning, policy frameworks, programming, budgeting and implementation.

The World Blind Union joins these celebrations and takes the opportunity to influence governments, development partners and UN agencies to mainstream the rights of blind and partially sighted persons in their planning, policy frameworks, programming, budgeting and implementation.

Blind and partially sighted persons worldwide continue to face significant challenges such as: inaccessible environment and non-inclusive education systems; learning facilities including textbooks remain largely in print as opposed to being accessible in braille, large print, audio and electronic formats.

Leave no one Behind

The underlying principle in the sustainable development goals is "leave no one behind". We cannot have inclusion and equality if the rights of persons with visual disabilities are not mainstreamed in the development processes. We call upon states to respect our plight and mainstream our rights into the development processes.

The BrailleApp ensures on-time Braille books

Open the BrailleApp by inserting the IP number of your V5 printer, in the search window of your browser. The BrailleApp menus will guide you:
  • Browse and select the file (docx, doc, pdf)
  • Preview the file in text or Braille
  • Edit translated braille file
  • Print the braille file, select number of copies and section