Qatar World Cup sticker album gets Braille edition

With less than a month left for the start of the World Cup in Qatar, which will take place from November 20th to September 18th, December, a partnership between the Ministry of Education and the Benjamin Constant Institute (IBC) is producing and distributing free Braille World Cup sticker albums. This is very relevant so that children with visual impairments can also enjoy this fever. that has dominated Brazilian schools, as well as adults who are also affected by this problem. Learn more as you read.

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Launch of the braille sticker album

In an interview, the director of the IBC, Luigi Amorim, stated that the decision to put together an album in Braille came from a student questioning the last World Cup in 2018. The director did part of oneindustry in adaptation in materialsdidactic It is he hadexperiencein creation

in images for Braille. After that, the director distributed some copies of the album in Braille to his students at the Institute, and even sent some copies out of the country.

On September 23rd, IBC celebrated its 168th birthday and on that same day, the IBC sticker albumWorld Cup in Braille was presented to the visually impaired assistance community. Luigi Amorim brought together a group of visually impaired people, in addition to his students, who were interested in collecting the stickers, and suggested that they download the Lookout application, which has the function of reading the images of the stickers.

"O application read the number from the figure It is there they [people with visual impairments] have all the information that the sticker brings, such as height, weight, name of the player and year in which he debuted at selection”, said the director. The layout of the album in Braille is very similar to the original album, each selection has its own pages. The difference between the albums is that each selection has an extra page, in the braille album, as it comes with the legend of all the players.

Luigi Amorim also stated that the only thing missing to bring a complete and independent experience to the disabled was the cut of the sticker. With this cut it would be possible to identify if the sticker is being glued on the right side or if it is upside down.

Production of these special albums

An initial print run of 200 albums was made and distributed by Instituto Benjamin Constant to students, while others three thousand editions are being sent to the subscribers of Revista Pontinhos, in more than 20 countries that speak the language portuguese.

“Any institution that answer people with Visual impairment he can request what The people send. Also we are making available the file, case The institution you have one printer braille, for what she be likely to to do The impression there It is The person have access to the album”, claimed Luigi Amorim.

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