ICEVI and WBU are delighted to announce that the Global Braille Survey is now open!
As part of the ICEVI-WBU Global Braille Literacy Campaign – More Braille: More Empowerment – the survey provides an important opportunity for people around the world to share their experiences and perspectives on braille literacy.
Led by the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI), the World Blind Union (WBU), and collaborating organisations and individuals, this global research initiative aims to strengthen our understanding of how braille is learned, taught, accessed and used – and of the factors that enable or create barriers to braille literacy.
Who can participate?
We warmly invite responses from:
- Adults aged 18 years and over who are blind, have low vision, or are deafblind;
- Parents and guardians of children of any age who are blind, have low vision, or are deafblind;
- Teachers and other professionals involved in braille education; and
- Braille transcribers.
Take the Survey
Share your experience – Take the Global Braille Survey.
When you follow the above link, you will first be invited to select your preferred language, then review the informed consent information, and then complete a short set of questions to determine which survey or surveys are relevant to you.
If you are eligible for more than one survey – for example, if you are both an adult braille user and a braille transcriber – you are welcome to contribute from each perspective. Simply complete one survey and then return to the link when you are ready to complete another.
The survey is available in multiple languages
We are delighted that the Global Braille Survey is already available in a growing range of languages, helping to make it possible for more people around the world to participate.
The survey is currently available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Russian, Slovak, and Spanish.
Italian and Portuguese translations are awaiting verification, and we hope to make these languages available in the near future.
We also warmly welcome offers to assist with translations into additional languages so that the survey can reach an even wider range of countries, communities and language groups.
If you have any questions about the survey, or would like to offer assistance with an additional language translation, please contact ICEVI via e-mail.
Why does your participation matter?
Every response adds to our global understanding of braille literacy. The findings will help build a stronger evidence base to inform advocacy, policy, research, resources and practice, and to support efforts to strengthen access to braille literacy around the world.
Please help us spread the word
We want to hear from people across countries, regions, languages and communities.
**Please share the Global Braille Survey widely through your organisations, professional and community networks, and directly with braille users, families, educators, professionals and transcribers who may wish to participate.
By sharing the survey widely – including with communities using the languages in which the survey is now available – you can help us hear from as broad and diverse a range of participants as possible.
Every experience matters. Every perspective adds to the evidence. Every voice can help strengthen the future of braille literacy.
Thank you for being part of this important global effort.
With warm regards,
Global Braille Literacy Campaign
More Braille: More Empowerment