BRAILLE … IS … NOT … A … LANGUAGE!!!

Welcome to our final 2025 Braille Literacy Month episode - kicking things off with a poem from a child who loves braille for (Braille200) an initiative by The European Blind Union.

Meanwhile, for this week’s Mixed Bag on Outlook, we continue to speak about our new low tech device The BrailleDoodle and its role in making braille more accessible, such as for students and for Barry. (Learn more on this item and hear the unboxing we did on the previous show. It’s like a white erase board for blind message writers and note leavers.)

We discuss Braille Literacy and Braille Literacy Canada getting a shoutout on a CBC Radio Morning show (even if they incorrectly referred to braille as a language), about the practical uses for braille, and we dive deeper into the lived experience (what’s known about it) of the code’s inventor: Louis Braille.

So airing originally on International Holocaust Awareness Day, we’re talking the realities of DEI (diversity/equity/inclusion) and what disregarding them can point and lead to, along with Ontario’s upcoming provincial election at the end of February and what it might mean for blind voters like us, with braille still being our primary topic on this one: Braille, then and now and in the lives of all of us who need and read it.

And so, we say again, for those way far in the back:

Braille is a code!

Learn more about Braille Literacy Canada:

https://www.brailleliteracycanada.ca/en