Today is viewed as World Braille Day (January 4th). Braille are raised dots in surfaces like paper or boards which can be used for reading by fingers with people with blindness or who have low vision.
Aim for this Day:
Spread awareness for the use of Braille in our society for individuals with visual impairments.
Promote the importance of Braille in our digital age.
Promote and educate Accessibility for visually impaired persons.
Braille features can seen in Kerala Mural Art board inside the Kerala Arts & Craft Village in Kerala. This place is completely Wheelchair and visually accessible with Differently abled bathroom and Gender neutral bathrooms too.
What can we as a local guide help?
Upload the Braille menu photo of the restaurants or sign boards to Maps.
Upload Tactile Paving paths of a place to Maps.
Edit features like table service of a restaurant/cafe/coffee shop to the Maps.
Include Pet friendly in your reviews if the business is providing it, as Visually impaired Persons have Guide Dogs.(You can also tell about the pet friendly feature for the business to the staffs).
How Braille Menu/board Photos helps in Google Maps.
In my perception, your contribution towards Braille photos can help directly/indirectly towards visually impaired persons.
For Example (indirectly): person A is a visually impaired person who wants to travel and gives his/her travel recommendations to Person B. Person B may look into places which are visually accessible like if the businesses or tourist attractions have Braille features or not.
This point of view can also be seen in @TravellerG’s post about Age Friendly Communities where your contributions can help a person who wants help from Google Maps accessibility features.
Share any Braille Menu/sign board photos of places you visited in the comments. You can also share other visual accessibility photos like Tactile Paving paths too. Also please tell how you help for visual accessibility in Google Maps. accessibility#visualaccessibility#accessibilityforall
@TusharSuradkar I have been contributing to map for a long time now but I feel so sorry for being myself so blind for not taking consideration about Braille or Accessibility in the places I reviewed. Now you all have given me a new vision to revisit all of my reviews from day one as much as possible to update completely in a new perspective
This is a common challenge @MathanVibranarayan
Wheelchair accessibility is the priority of most businesses and public places.
Please check this post that shows the other checks we can do and add to Google Maps: Accessibility for All - The Movement
Thank you Tushar for your valuable comment! One of common Braille feature is in the as you mentioned. Braille feature in the handlebar is common as it point out the direction and where it takes you! Railway is currently on process on installing Braille on trains and handlebars in the stations.
I appreciate your post on this special day, it has rich content and nice photos. Thanks for sharing @Rahul001
Hi @MathanVibranarayan , I appreciate your thoughtful posting of your comment in Braille.
Thank you @TusharSuradkar ji, for sharing the link to a great post, informative comments, and photos.
Thanks for sharing this! It’s important to remember the significance of Braille in providing literacy and independence for people who are blind or have low vision.
Happy World Braille Day! @Rahul001
I often go to NAB to meet kids who are visually impaired and there teachers do everything possible to help them learn Braille language by books, training on how to travel and much more. Thanks for sharing this post as this is equally and more importantly our responsibility as a part of society
Regards,
Thank you very much, dear @Rahul001 for mentioning my post in your post…
Of course, you have very well conceived and presented this post…
Very helpful photos too…
I shall try to add a few shots soon, dear…
Regards with gratitude…
stay blessed 
as you mentioned. Braille feature in the handlebar is common as it point out the direction and where it takes you! Railway is currently on process on installing Braille on trains and handlebars in the stations.
