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31 unusual facts about Braille


Azoteq

capacitive sensing are touch detection with gloves, higher RF immunity, elimination of false detections, Braille-friendly touch sensing and water immunity.

Barton Creek Square

In November 1981, the mall became the first in Texas to have Braille and bold print signage throughout the center.

Cages

Dickson Tan who is legally blind, typed out the entire script in Braille.

California High School Exit Exam

For example, a student with visual impairments may need a copy of the test in large-print or Braille.

Cross modal plasticity

Early or congenitally blind individuals have stronger cross modal connections the earlier they began learning Braille.

Denis Barry

He also organized the third USCF Blind Championship in 1977, and was the first to use Braille wallcharts at that tournament.

Eric von Hippel

It is named for von Hippel and its enclosure bears his name in Braille.

Gajendra Thakur

Braille Maithili: (his novel Sahasrabadhani- Ist Maithili book in Braille).

GEA Westfalia Separator

Reconstruction began in 1946 and, insofar as materials could be procured, a wide range of own constructions were designed and manufactured such as spin dryers, circular saws, lamps, sledges, candleholders, scooters, coat racks, toys and Braille typewriters.

Geet Ramayan

Geet Ramayan has been translated into nine other languages and also transliterated into Braille.

Gene Stratton-Porter

She was estimated to have more than 50 million readers, as her novels were translated into several languages, as well as Braille.

Her works were translated into several languages, including Braille, and Stratton-Porter was estimated to have had 50 million readers around the world.

HM Prison Full Sutton

Employment and training is also available in various prison workshops including bricklaying, painting and decorating, plumbing, recycling, textiles, contract services, Braille transcription, catering and industrial cleaning.

Ivy Williams

She learned to read Braille after she began to lose her sight in later life, and she wrote a Braille primer which was published by the National Institute for the Blind in 1948.

La Caixa

All ATMs are fitted with keyboards adapted to the Braille system and allow the letter size used on the screens to be increased.

Merkel nerve ending

Several studies indicate that type I fibres mediate high resolution tactile discrimination, and are responsible for the ability of our finger tips to feel fine detailed surface patterns (e.g. for reading Braille).

Michael Bruce Ross

Ross had accomplishments, such as translating Braille, acting as a "big brother" to other inmates, and sponsoring an impoverished child from the Dominican Republic.

Northwest Public Radio

KFAE also broadcasts the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library's Evergreen Radio Reading Service to blind and handicapped listeners on its 67kHz subcarrier.

Odhavram

He called for the brail script from Bombay and his first batch had 7-8 students.

Pearl G. Curran

Her song Sonny Boy was transcribed into Braille for the blind during her lifetime, indicating its popularity at the time.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

According to official statistics from departments associated with the PLA General Political Department, from 1964 to 1976, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung was published in 4 Chinese editions, 8 Chinese minority languages in 8 versions, one Braille edition, 37 foreign language version and a bilingual Chinese-English version (total 38 foreign versions), with a total printing of 1,055,498,000 copies.

Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park

Information about the snakes is provided in Braille, as well as more conventional formats, and the park includes a library.

Round Table India

Round Table India released Braille Dictionaries in Tamil and Marathi languages and distributed the same to several blind institutions.

Roy Nachum

The photo realistic oil paintings illustrate surrealistic images, which employ Braille and a “double vision” technique that is intended to challenge those with sight to question the limitations of their vision.

Samuel Gridley Howe

Dr. Howe himself was the originator of many improvements in method as well as in the process of printing books in Braille.

SMK Batu Lintang

As such, resource rooms containing Braille typewriters and dedicated teaching materials are provided to these students.

St Stephen's Green

One of the more unusual aspects of the park lies on the north west corner of this central area – a garden for the blind with scented plants, which can withstand handling, and are labelled in Braille.

Stitching awl

The accident spurred Braille to the invention of the famous Braille alphabet.

The Pen Museum

Information at the museum is given through displays and tours by volunteer guides, as well as through demonstrations and ‘hands on’ activities, such as writing with different kinds of pen, early typewriters and Braille machines, and making a pen nib using original factory presses.

Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Braille interpretation is provided throughout the gallery, and visitors are encouraged to learn some braille during their visit.

Yuri Rubinsky

Using SGML source files, Yuri's novel Christopher Columbus Answers All Charges (see below) was coded into Braille and produced on voice synthesizer before it was printed on paper.


American Printing House for the Blind

In 1960, APH completed the largest Braille project ever undertaken, the 145-volume Braille edition of the World Book Encyclopedia.

Blindness and education

In 1821, Braille learned of a communication system devised by Captain Charles Barbier of the French Army.

Boston line letter

Boston line letter was a tactile writing system created by Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe in 1835, a popular precursor to the now-standardized Braille.

Braille flag

Congressman Todd Tiahrt of Kansas, along with 16 others, co-sponsored a bill asking the 110th Congress to place the Braille flag as a monument to Americas' blinded veterans, blind service members, and other blind Americans at the Arlington National Cemetery.

Braille Institute of America

By 1924, Atkinson finished printing the 21 volumes of the Braille King James Version of the Bible.

Character encoding

Early binary repertoires include Bacon's cipher, Braille, International maritime signal flags, and the 4-digit encoding of Chinese characters for a Chinese telegraph code (Hans Schjellerup, 1869).

Deep Space 1

Deep Space 1 succeeded in its primary and secondary objectives including flybys of the asteroid Braille and of Comet Borrelly, returning valuable science data and images.

English Braille

In the finalized form as of 2013, UEB upgrades English Braille Grade 2 (the literary coding used in several slightly-variable forms in different countries), obsoletes Computer Braille Code by making email/website/programming syntax part of literary coding, and in some ways competes with Nemeth Code by adding additional math-notation (albeit Taylor-style with the numerals overwriting letters rather than overwriting punctuation as in Nemeth) to the literary coding.

Freedom Scientific

Arkenstone, founded in 1989 by Jim Fruchterman was known for producing page scanning software to permit blind people to read print books and documents through voice synthesizers and braille displays.

French Braille

Unlike English and German Braille, French Braille only uses the abbreviations and contractions present in the printed orthography.

Hazel Edwards

The Hippopotamus books have also been translated into Chinese, Braille and Auslan signing for the hearing impaired and were presented as an official Australian government gift to the children of Princess Mary of Denmark.

Kings Domain, Melbourne

An interactive sculpture consisting of three bronze bells commemorates the life of Tilly Aston, a blind disability activist who founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers, and later went on to establish the Association for the Advancement of the Blind.

Linden Lodge School

Linden Lodge was the first school in the UK to use the Perkins Upward Brailler to enable their students to type using the Braille alphabet.

New York Point

According to Helen Keller, this caused literacy problems among blind children, and was one of the chief arguments against New York Point and in favor of one of the braille alphabets.

The Brain That Changes Itself

Doidge presents an experiment performed by Alvaro Pascual-Leone in which he mapped the brains of blind people learning to read Braille.

The Secret Bench of Knowledge

The unveiling of the new statue was done by Vivot, assisted by a young blind boy named Gabriel McBride, from Spruce View, Alberta, who inscribed his message in Braille.

Writing implement

Another writing implement employed by a smaller population, is the stylus used by blind users in conjunction with the slate for punching out the dots in Braille.