France, Jan. 5 -- 2025 marked the 200th anniversary ofLouis Braille's invention of the six-dot tactile writing system that opened the door to literacy for millions of blind people.
Two centuries on, Braille is still used by around a third of France's estimated two million blind and visually impaired people.
Yet access to reading material remains limited. Of the roughly 100,000 books published in France each year, only about 3 percent are transcribed into Braille. And just one institution systematically follows contemporary literary trends - the Centre de transcription et d'edition en braille (CTEB), based in Toulouse in south-west France.
Founded in the late 1980s, following earlier research into Braille transcription software at Toulous...