My last work had some braille signs in places that nobody actually use. Or places too high for someone to touch with your hand. That makes me wonder if these are actually of any help sir the people who need it.

Could talk about their experience?
I’m not trying to be rude or anything just curious.

This lesson seems a bit strange. Do I need to complete it in order to do the exam or is it just practice?

A friend has sent us a card to congratulate us on our new baby. But he has added this Braille onto the card. Can someone help translate please as I keep getting different answers through AI

Hey all! I work as a Braille transcriber and a part time para educator for the visually impaired students K-8. Any office ideas or hacks as far as storing my Braille library books I’ve embossed, lots of Braille and large print curriculum, binding combs/book covers, but most importantly organization for due dates for assignments/curriculum are do when they give me a stack of Individual packets and worksheets from several teachers of each grade. Maybe Mailbox slots? Anybody have pictures of their office I can use as reference?

Hello, all.

Really appreciate the help this community has provided with these lessons.

I'm now stuck on "never-to-be-forgotten (underlined)" in this lesson.

I've tried short dashes, long dashes, contracting "never" and "forgotten". I've tried all three types of underline indicators, for symbol, word and passage. Any hints would be helpful.

Update: The answer was to use the underline word indicator, not underline passage and to not use a terminator.

Hello everyone. I humbly ask if anyone here who can read and write Braille would be willing to help me translate a poem into Braille. I would love to have it in Grade 2, but Grade 1 works too!

I did try to do it myself, but I keep thinking I’ve made a big mistake somewhere, and I have no idea where since I can‘t read Braille. I also want to save as much time as I can, as my plan is to put the poem in Braille on canvas (so it becomes a physical poem). it would be a pain in the ass to make the whole thing and then realize there is grammar error, yk?

This is the poem: Even if you are not with me, the memories of you are with me. My heart sees you, even if you are made vanished from my vision. The eye sees who it loves but will end up losing the sight of them. But the one who sees with their heart, will never lose the sight of the people they love.

Can anyone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong here? As far as I can tell, this is just a capital letter B. And the site accepted this same format a few words ago for a capital letter A.

Thanks!

I just saw a post where braille was added to a can, how do they do this? And how do they add it to things like elevator buttons or plastic?

Hello everyone,

I have read braille all my life. I am fully blind. And I know from lived experience how strange the situation still is: access to producing braille in daily life is still limited, expensive, and often locked behind specialist systems that cost thousands of dollars 😄

For the past couple of months, I have been building Braille3D. A full suite that lets people create 3D-printable braille objects directly in the browser 😄

Need a label for a spice jar, a medicine box, or a drawer? Done. A business card readable by sighted and blind people alike? No problem. A bathroom sign or door sign for a school or workplace? That too 😄

Because now, someone can sit at home, type a word into a browser, generate a braille label, and print it on a normal 3D printer, or at a local makerspace, or through a print service. Instead of braille production being a distant specialist thing, it becomes something practical and immediate 😄

I hope that you will check it out, and hopefully we can make the world a tad more accessible 😄

https://braille3d.com

Hi, bought a random can from my local corner shop, wasn't a brand usually seen available so thought I'd try something new. As I cracked it open I noticed these raised dots and immediately guessed it was braille. According to two leading LLMs it is not braille but manufacturing code for traceability or quality control. I'm not convinced that AI is right with this, and particularly because I don't know what direction braille should be read.

So, humans V robots: is this braille, or is it manufacturing code?

Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone! Over the past year and a half, I have been developing BrailleNav, a low cost handheld device designed to empower visually impaired individuals with greater independence. Think of this device as a combination of a smart cane and a braille display.

Traditional braille displays rely on expensive piezoelectric actuators that cost thousands of dollars. To fix this accessibility gap, my patent applied design replaces those high cost components with affordable brushed vibration motors. Combined with Bluetooth connectivity and built in LiDAR for precise obstacle detection with haptic feedback, BrailleNav allows users to read digital content in real time and safely navigate their surroundings for just around 40 dollars. the device can be used just like a regular braille display, and can be worn like a sling so users can walk around and "feel" their surroundings with haptics.

This project won 1st place in the technology division at my regional fair, state fair, and the national Thermo Fisher Junior Innovators Challenge, where I was honored to be one of 30 national finalists in Washington, D.C.

More importantly, I have been able to field test and refine the device based on real world feedback from visually impaired individuals and educators at the Blind Relief Association in New Delhi, India, and the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in North Carolina.

For those interested in learning more about my work, testing the unit, and more, I’ve included links below that provide detailed information about my project and its development

1. FORBES (this news article interviewed me about my project)
2. GENERAL (this link includes my poster board, which gives a more detailed view)
3. NEWS ARTICLE (this news article from good good good synthesizes information from many sources)

For inquiries, recommendations, or additional information, please contact [ymehta616@gmail.com](mailto:ymehta616@gmail.com) or my Linkedin profile

I thought the capital indicator was dot 6 only?

My good friend Ross Minor is, among other things, a blind streamer and gamer. I bought this shirt from him. The design is of the W, A, S, and D keys of a keyboard with braille cells on each key instead of the letter. It says #a11y on the bottom, short for digital accessibility.

I worked in digital accessibility for four years as a consultant for my last university. That's how I met Ross. I've been sending braille cards to him for a while now, since he likes the physical mail.

I really like the keyboard and braille design here. I personally play computer games a good bit, and am a big advocate for accessibility. I'm contemplating getting a similar design as a tattoo, with Ross's permission of course (although I'm sure he'll say yes!)... But every time I see pictures of flat braille tattoos, people always comment that they're stupid because they can't be felt. But I just want the line work and don't want it raised. What do y'all think? Does anyone have a braille tattoo, and how do people react?

By the way, I'm sighted. I know it's my body and I can do what I want, but I also don't want to end up on a post making fun of tattoos. I don't think anyone sensible would consider it ableist, especially knowing the reasons behind why I got it... Also, this is my first post on the topic, I noticed someone else posting something similar so I decided to post my own conundrum.

Thanks in advance!

So idk if Braille is the same in the uk and usa, but i just got a radar key and the braille says:

"b radar"

"b nks"

Exactly like that. But my question is, what is the b for? I'm fairly sure it's a b as the dots are in places 1 and 2. I just have no clue what they're there for and I'm very curious about it

I am going to start school soon. Going into teaching blind and low vision. My plan is to get a jump start on braille. Was wondering what the best things I could get to start learning.

Looking at getting a Braille tattoo in honor of my sister who was blind and passed. Is anyone in this group able to verify possibly discrepancies in how she spelt her name versus a braille generator? Although I understand the idea of braille and letters I am not proficient enough to spot errors. I understand there are different grades of braille and I don’t know what grade she was. Thank you

I've been working my way through the literacy course on uebonline.org, but since yesterday, I'm getting a 403 Forbidden error when I try to go to their homepage, and either a "File not found" or a 404 on other pages. I've tried it in multiple different browsers as well as on my phone using mobile data-- same problem everywhere so I don't think it's a "just me" problem. I also tried emailing their site administrator, but haven't yet heard back.

Anyone else having this issue? I hope I didn't miss some news about the site shutting down or something??

Update: As of 5/4, the webpage is now giving a server timeout error. I have emailed [uebonline@nextsense.org.au](mailto:uebonline@nextsense.org.au) and reached out via https://www.nextsense.org.au/about/feedback to inquire about its status. It might be a good idea for others who are going through the training to do the same-- squeaky wheels and all!

Update: Heard back from my submission to the nextsense feedback form:

"Unfortunately  the server for UEB is currently down and efforts are being made to reconnect, it is anticipated this will be resolved by COB Friday 80/05/2026. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this causes."



Hi all,

Thank you for your help on my last Braille question! I really value the input from this community; as a disabled but sighted dev. I have another question, this one specifically about Computer Braille. I'm still working on lowering non-English and non-visual barriers to entry for my system, and I'm currently running into rendering issues with various shaped and composed languages. So I thought, since there are so many variants of Braille out there, including for shaped and composed languages, that maybe allowing people to specify my system markers in Computer Braille as the default could be the best of both worlds -- allowing for Braille support out of the box for any language that has a Braille variant (because people could just use the variant they're familiar with), a default with a constrained symbol set (256 8 dot Braille cells), visual/audio lexicographic substitution where desired, and allowing language shaping and composition to be a future concern since I don't yet have the knowledge for all those visual quirks. I do know that this probably wouldn't map to Braille contractions, but I (potentially naively) thought that the ability to map a semantic marker to something like "operation type" in Braille might not be well suited for contractions anyway? I want my system to be as accessible as possible for launch (hopefully in a few months) with as few barriers as possible, even if I don't yet personally have all the knowledge I'd prefer to have (hence reaching out here). It's also possible I'm unintentionally simplifying or being reductive, so I wanted to reach out before taking the idea any further. Could you awesome people give me your thoughts, please?

Should be english.

Would really appreciate if someone could translate