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World Braille Day 2023: Vision Care highlights significance of regular eye testing to avoid visual impairments and even blindness Vision Care, Sri Lanka’s largest vision and eye wear solutions provider, is celebrating World Braille Day and acknowledging the immense, life-changing contribution made by Louis Braille in transforming the lives of millions of visually impaired people across the globe by providing them access to a better quality of life and greater acceptance in society. World Braille Day is celebrated on January 4, in honour of Louis Braille, the French educator and inventor of the globally-acclaimed reading and writing systemintended for use by visually impaired people.Braille is a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots to represent each letter and number, as well as musical, mathematical and scientific symbols.In November 2018, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) officially approved World Braille Day. The first World Braille Day was observed ...