So Nick, over to you.

Thank you, Matthew.

Yeah, and thank you everyone for joining us.

So I'm going to go into a little detail about how these surveys work and the process that we used for developing them.

Um, I know my colleagues have already mentioned a little, but I'm gonna try to give a little bit more of, uh, some details.

So, um, as I think my colleague Pravina already mentioned, these surveys were developed as a collaborative effort, and our Focus Area 3 established a small working group made up of individuals with expertise in braille literacy Education, research, assistive technology, accessibility, and international development.

Over the course of several months, this group worked together to develop, uh, the questions that were most important to understanding Braille literacy today.

I am a braille transcripter, transcriber and I love braille as my, part of my identity.

But then how does this Braille survey come into your personal picture? How did you get involved with that?

This was a really beautiful blending of my two roles as being both a researcher in special education and in topics related to supporting education as well as my work with the Accessible Books Consortium.

This year, there's a joint campaign that was launched.

It was launched on January 4th, and it's a joint campaign of the World Blind Union and the International Council for the Education of Persons with Visual Impairments, ICEVI.

So ICEVI and the WBU have launched what they're calling a global braille literacy campaign that's scheduled to go for two years, so 2026 and 2027.

And the focus of this braille literacy campaign is to raise awareness globally around the difference that braille can make in the lives of persons who are blind, low vision or deafblind.

The Braille Literacy Campaign has what they refer to as three focus areas that work on different elements of this task.

So for someone who is interested in joining this initiative and adding their voice to the survey, where do they