Dick Barbor-Might: Gift of Braille still as precious after 200 years

THE key is courage, to persist in the face of every kind of difficulty. That quality stands out in the story of Louis Braille, who gave his name to the system of embossed dots that enables blind people to read just as well as the rest of us, but with their fingertips.

And 200 years on from Braille's birth in 1809, the system has stood the test of time. In essence is it the same now as when he invented it while a pupil at a school for the blind, the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris.

In modern-day...