Information about the Braille Script.

1. THE BRAILLE SCRIPT
Jyothish M
Asst. Professor
Amrita Vishwavidyapeetham
Universtiy

2. What is Braille?
Braille is a system of writing and printing
for people how are blind or visually
impaired, in which varied arrangements
of raised dos representing letters and
numerals are identified by touch.

4. Who developed it?
1809- 1852

5. Louis Braille
• Born in Paris
• Became blind because of infection, at age 3
• Went to regular school- brilliant student
• Scholarship to study at Royal Institution for
Blind Youth
• Re-invented Charles Barbier’s ‘night reading it
to present-day Braille system in 1824, at age 15
• Standard English Braille adopted in 1932
• First blind teacher at RIBY

6. Braille system

7. 3 levels of coding in Braille
• Grade 1 (uncontracted Braille)
a letter-by-letter transcription
Braille characters are much larger than their printed equivalents, and the standard 11" by 11.5" (28 cm × 30 cm) page has room
for only 25 lines of 43 characters. To reduce space and increase reading speed, most Braille alphabets and orthographies use
ligatures, abbreviations, and contractions.
• Grade 2 (contracted Braille)
an addition of abbreviations and contractions
• Grade 3
various non-standardized personal
shorthands

8. (Unified English Braille- International Council on
English Braille, 2004)

10. Comparison of Braille codes

11. Braille codes in all languages

12. Braille technology
• Braille translation software
• Braille computers (obviously no
screen!)
• Braille watch
• Talking watches
• Braille phone (2014)
UK and Australia
Ron McCallum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoTSdOkjEVs

13. Braille can be used everywhere!

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Title Title
Data Data
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16. Example of a chart (4 colours)
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr
East
West
North
South

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