* Braille embossers by Blista-Brailletec GmbH

* Braille embossers by Braillo, Norway AS

* Braille embossers by Enabling Technologies

* Braille embossers by Index Braille

* Braille embossers by Interpoint NV ( Elekul )

Modified Braille embossers can also be used to produce tactile paper maps.

* Tactile electronic displays ( aka refreshable Braille display ) are usually intended for the blind.

Most blind and visually impaired students now attend their neighborhood schools, often aided in their educational pursuits by regular teachers of academics and by a team of professionals who train them in alternative skills: Orientation and Mobility ( O and M ) training-instruction in independent travel-is usually taught by contractors educated in that area, as is Braille.

* Braille terminals, consisting of a Refreshable Braille display which renders text as Braille characters ( usually by means of raising pegs through holes in a flat surface ) and either a QWERTY or Braille keyboard.

Unified English Braille Code ( UEBC, now usually just UEB ) is an English language Braille code developed to permit representing the wide variety of literary and technical material in use in the English-speaking world today.

In addition spelling was usually not a strong point, since the education of blind students had often been in Braille, which has about 180 contractions.

* Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications: assures accessibility to web content, e. g., text description for any visuals such that users of with a disability or users that need assistive technology such as screen readers and refreshable Braille displays, can access the content.

Some sources depict Braille learning about it from a newspaper account read to him by a friend, while others say the officer, aware of its potential, made a special visit to the school.

Because of his accomplishments as a young boy, Braille holds a special place as a hero for children, and he has been the subject of a large number of works of juvenile literature.

Other appearances in the arts include the American TV special Young Heroes: Louis Braille ( 2010 ); the French TV movie Une lumière dans la nuit ( 2008 ); and the dramatic play Braille: The Early Life of Louis Braille ( 1989 ) by Lola and Coleman Jennings.

Dignitaries received a special Opening Day Program which contained their names written in Braille.

One study area is dedicated to adaptive technology, which includes a Braille display, a reading machine, a special individual monitor for people with retinal degenerative diseases, a head tracker, a multi-colored QWERTY layout with keys four times larger than normal, a voice-to-text program, and software to help people who struggle with reading.

As well as textured printing, this new 2004 design incorporates a special tactile feature similar to Braille dots for the blind indicating the denomination.

The only special assistance given to him during his games was a card on which the category names were printed in Braille ( which he only received at the very start of the round ), and a computer keyboard to type out his name on the podium's computer and his response for Final Jeopardy !.

The stocks of books in Moon type and Lucas systems had mostly been presented to the Library and some of the Braille books had been purchased on special terms from the Royal National Institute of Blind People which was known as the British and Foreign Blind Society at the time.

As well as textured printing, this design incorporates a special tactile feature similar to Braille dots for the blind indicating the denomination.

As well as textured printing, this new 2004 design incorporates a special tactile feature similar to Braille dots for the blind indicating the denomination.

Braille education remains important for developing reading skills among blind and visually impaired children as braille literacy correlates with higher employment rates.

In 1892, Frank Haven Hall, superintendent of the Illinois Institute for the for the Education of the Blind, created the Hall Braille Writer, which was like a typewriter with 6 keys, one for each dot in a braille cell.

* January 4 – Louis Braille, French teacher, inventor of braille ( d. 1852 )

* January 6 – Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille ( b. 1809 )

Louis Braille (, ; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852 ) was the inventor of braille, a system of reading and writing used by people who are blind or visually impaired.

" Louis Braille " in braille

New variations in braille technology continue to grow, including such innovations as braille computer terminals ; RoboBraille email delivery service ; and Nemeth Braille, a comprehensive system for mathematical and scientific notation.

Around 1916, agreement settled on English Braille standardized to Braille usage, chiefly because of the better reflection of English punctuation compared to New York Point, the speed of reading braille, the large amount of written material available in English braille compared to American Braille, and the international accessibility offered by following British alphabetical order.

Braille writers created braille characters with a stylus and slate ( as developed by Louis Braille ) or by using one of the complex, expensive, and fragile braille writing machines available at the time.

Braille cell, 2 dots wide by 3 dots highBraille music uses the same six-position Braille cell as literary braille.

The Braille Music KIT works in both directions: musicians can create a braille music score that can then be converted to print music, or a sighted musician can use Finale to create a print score which is then be converted to braille music.

An international effort to standardize the braille music code has continued to make progress, culminating in the updates summarized in Braille Music Code 1997 and detailed in the New International Manual of Braille Music Notation ( 1997 ).

In others, among them Azerbaijan, Canada, Ghana, the United Kingdom, and most African and Asian countries, visually impaired voters can use ballots in Braille or paper ballot templates.

10851: A bill to provide that paper money carry a designation in Braille to indicate the denomination

A computerized text DAISY book can be read using refreshable Braille display or screen-reading software, printed as Braille book on paper, converted to a talking book using synthesised voice or a human narration, and also printed on paper as large print book.

Examples of assistive technology for visually impairment include the Canadian currency tactile feature, which a system of raised dots in one corner, based on Braille cells but not standard Braille.

Braille ( a writing system for the blind ) uses either 6 or 8 tactile ' points ' from which all letters and numbers are formed.

Braille, like Baudot, uses a number symbol and a shift symbol, which may be repeated for shift lock, to fit numbers and upper case into the 31 codes that 6 bits offer.

Launched on 24 October 1998, the Deep Space mission carried out a flyby of asteroid 9969 Braille, which was selected as the mission's science target.

Braille dots are put on the edge of a spinning wheel, which allows the user to read continuously with a stationary finger while the wheel spins at a selected speed.

Braille created his own raised-dot system by using an awl, the same kind of implement which had blinded him.

A large monument to him was erected in the town square which was itself renamed Braille Square.

" HIM also released an album that contains an acoustic version of all the tracks from Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, Chapters 1-13, which is called Baudelaire in Braille.

The 2010 Manchester University team included a visually impaired student, and the picture rounds in episodes involving the team were word puzzles for which she was provided with Braille transcriptions.

In 1961, World Book produced a Braille edition, which filled 145 volumes and nearly 40, 000 pages.

* Louis Braille, at age 15, develops the six-dot code, later known as Braille, which allows the visually impaired to read and write faster than previous raised-letter systems.

During that period Moondog created hundreds of compositions which were transferred from Braille to sheet music by Ilona Sommer.

In Dutch Braille, the IJ is represented by ⠽, which represents a Y in standard Braille.

) Scott routinely sketched a list of characters and a few lead lines setting up a situation, which Walker would commit to memory or make notes on with his Braille typewriter ( he was blind since birth ).

New York Point competed with the American Braille system, which employed the Braille base ( an array of points 2 wide by 3 high ).

Detailed information about Braille comes primarily from the Deep Space 1 probe, which passed within 26 km of the asteroid on July 29, 1999, and from extensive ground based observations done in conjunction with the mission.