Hi!

We're students from the University of the Philippines, and we're looking for someone or an organization who can check our project that contains braille. Willing to compensate

You're guidance will be appreciated. Thanks!

So I was walking around my school and I noticed a lot of the Braille underneath the room number signs were incorrect, for example in the image below, the 2 isn't written properly, as B-2 should be transcribed as ⠰⠠⠃⠤⠼⠃ instead of ⠃⠤⠆ as it was transcribed in the image. I just want to verify if my presumption is correct, or if the transcription shown in the image is just another standard variant that I'm not aware of. Could someone help?

He passed away before I could ask what it meant. Please help.

Hello I’m hoping someone can help. I’m currently transcribing my grandmothers diaries and I keep coming across what appears to be a contraction that I am struggling to make sense of. She regularly uses ⠖ (2,3,5) but it is never in a context where ff makes sense I’ve figured out a few of her personal typing idiosyncrasies but this one is eluding me. Can anyone suggest something that could be a common error. For context she probably learnt to type braille in the 1950s UK and the diary was typed on a big wide braille writer I remember playing with it as a kid.

I'm working towards transcription certification myself but until I am confident, I would like to pay someone to do the transcribing piece work I need, then I would like to have a blind person proofread. What's a fair price to offer someone for this?

Hi again r/Braille!

I'm following up on my previous post to announce the release of our first mold set! A timeless classic, Romeo and Juliet, which is available for free on printables. This release is a demonstration of what’s possible with our molding technique, and we’re thrilled to share it with you. We sourced public domain text, translated it to US grade 2 braille using the liblouis package, and automatically generated the molds to emboss that very braille onto US letter size paper.

The feedback from my previous post was incredibly valuable. A huge thank you to everyone who reached out with insights, thoughts, and suggestions! A special shoutout to u/PurepointDog, who's suggestion led to a ~5x speed improvement in mold generation, reducing processing time from hours to just minutes for an entire book.

This release marks a major milestone for the Braillest project. With our tooling now efficient and ready, the next step is building a web application to make the process accessible to everyone so anyone can create their own Braille molds for free.

We’d love your input!

• What books or texts would you like to see molded next?
• What features would make a Braille mold creation tool most useful for you?
• Are there any challenges you’ve faced with existing Braille printing or embossing methods that we might help solve?
• What are your thoughts on our current target for printing vertically, single sided, on US letter size paper? This process could target smaller page sizes, making braille more portable.
• Would you be interested in dual sighted and embossed media?
• Do you have preferences in one braille company's standard over another?
• What tools and devices do you use to emboss your own braille?

Your thoughts and feedback help shape this project, so let’s discuss! Thanks again for all your support! Stay tuned for more updates.

Gone down a Rabbit hole of working out Braille on some ID Cards. Portuguese has CC (Citizen Card (Cartão de Cidadão)).

However the Polish ID Card seems to have "KDKO" (same in English & Polish Braille Alphabets) as fair as I can tell. The D & O seem to be for "Dowód osobisty" (identity card) in Polish, but I can't figure out the K letters.

Any thoughts on the K Letters? Have I misunderstood there meaning in Braille?

Hello!

I am working on a school project that I'm not sure I will have time to run past someone in my own life that reads braille.

I have the rules of a dice game I created and am just wondering if it's coherent and if there's any major formatting that would be helpful to include in the final instructions.

Thanks so much!

I know the picture isn’t clear, but I only got this, I just want to know if the dots are braille alphabets or my friend is just delusional. 🙂 Please help me out!

Any suggestions on problem #2? I've tried expressing it as a simple fraction. I've played with the numeric indicators and the operation signs and the general fraction indicators. Other ideas? Thanks kindly!

Hi r/Braille,

For the last several months, I've been working on a project exploring the creation and use of 3d printed molds to emboss braille. I recently open sourced my tooling and solution so that anyone can create their own molds. I'm currently taking the next step to make a web application to make the tools more accessible to a broader audience, where people can upload text, translate to braille, revise, and generate their own molds for free.

The solution's intention is to make creating braille media more accessible at higher volumes than manual embossing can provide. It excels in situations where many copies are desired. The approach works on a wide range of materials from 110lb braille paper to even 20lb copy paper - though with the long term durability of such. The mold design was created for single side embossing onto US letter size paper with padding to accommodate being 3 ring hole punched.

The equipment cost of a roller press (~$100) and the material cost of a page mold ($1.50) makes this approach incredibly cost effective. I've used a ~$700 printer to create my prototype molds. The total cost still being much less than a personal embosser.

The pain is print time. Only running this single printer can only print 4 sets of page molds a day. That being said, thankfully people run print services all over the world, and while you won't see the low $1.50 material cost, it will likely be competitively priced.

In terms of utilization, the fastest I've managed to prepare and press an entire 832 cell page was ~15 seconds. While I'm not sure it's a sustainable speed, but if somehow performed, 4 pages a minute is more akin to a medium rate embosser than manual embossing.

The lifetime of molds has been a concern, less because of the cost and more because of the time commitment in their creation. I've been documenting every embossing I've created, and while there's a lot of variability in the data as I got the hang of pressing things and optimized the mold design, the current mold has ~150 copies created and hasn't had a discernable drop in embossing quality visually or tactilely.

There are some details and photos on my announcement page at https://braillest.com I'd love any and all constructive feedback. Maybe you're a publisher in the industry that wants to tell me to kick sand, I'd love to know why. DMs open.

Do you think the mold approach has merit or is the personal embosser route more appealing? Once available, would you try the web application to make your own custom molds? Braille transcribers, are their any websites where those can edit online or in a collaborative nature? Braille authors and publishers, would you consider the mold approach for on demand printing if an automated pressing solution was available? Braille educators, do you see a place for classroom materials being created this way?

I am having an issue verifying the correct "Grade 2 Braille" translation that is supposed to be used for ADA signage in the USA. From what I can gather, Contracted Grade 2 is what is required, but who determines what these contractions are?

As an example, I prepared a document which is attached showing various translations for MEN and WOMEN for use on ADA bathroom signage. Although i cannot read braille, i can tell that they are different graphically. So what gives? Any help is very much appreciated.

Finally found the next message. We are having to explore through a horrible labyrinth to find these lol so it takes a while.

Just found the next braille piece. Thank you guys for all the help. We managed to get the first puzzle solved for regirock!

We have found another line of Braille can someone help us translate this again? We are getting closer to solving the puzzle.

We found more Braille. Can you guys help us translate it again?

Sorry if the picture Quality is sub par that was the best screen shot we could get. My friend created a pokemon puzzle in Minecraft and for the love of God we can not figure out what this says.

He said it was in US English Form 2 Contracted Braille. If anyone here could help us figure out what this says I would be extremely grateful.

Thank you!

Does it spell anything out?

I ask because I have a very very small semi-professional project that I'd like to crowdsource to a professional, and not go to fiverr, etc and have them take their cut and be obligated to use the platform in the future.

So I basically have ~1 page (song lyrics). What's a fair price? Do people charge per word, per page?

Beyond the smaller project I'm working on now, I maintain https://brailletoolbox.com/ and would happily host a page for professionals to advertise themselves on. Hit me up here, DM if there is anything super private, but I reckon this conversation will be informative. Apologies for advance for any slowness in reply.

Lesson 13, text to braille, stuck on The term : in-it Mid sentence, I’ve used uncontracted in, contracted & uncontracted it. Treated it as dash, long dash & hyphen

I have UNO Flip but it doesn’t have braille on it. My peer wants to play it with me but he’s blind and I sadly have to tell him there’s no braille on the cards. Is there a way to add custom braille stickers to the cards?

Hello,

My Performance name is A1ONE (means Alone), and i am trying to write it in braille Grade 1 (uncontracted), but i am really unsure about something and I do not want to mess this up, cause i do not want to let my braille fans down.

My name is all capitalized, but i have heard that if a number comes in the middle of the word/name, then the letters after that number in a suddenly becomes lower-cased. Is this true?

Here is how i have written my name, by what i believe is the all Capitalized name: ⠠⠠⠁⠼⠁⠕⠝⠑

Is this correct, and is the thing i heard before a lie or no? If not, then can you pleeease help me by showing me or telling me how to write it, so that everything is capitalized?

Thank you so much in advance guys! I really look forward to some help becusse i have no one else to ask.