What is Braille made up of.

Jul 6, 2010 | Uncategorized | 0 comments

Someone asked me a Braille related question this morning.

It was hard to answer fully in Twitter so I decided to use the blog instead.

Each letter in Braille is six cells. A is one dot or cell, b is two dots, c is two different dots, d is three dots. I’ll explain this in the table below.

1 4
2 5
3 6

You can see from the above table that dots 1, 2 and 3 are on the left and dots 4, 5 and 6 are on the right.

The letter d for example is made from dots 1, 4 and five as shown below:

1 4
_ 5
_ _
_ _

The _ was used to show a cell that no dot has been punched through.

The space in Braille is simply a blank spot.

1 4 _ _ 1 4
2 5 _ _ 2 5
3 6 _ _ 3 6

Here you see that dots have been punched through all six cells. The space has had no dots punched through.

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