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Anything related to the Braille system, a tactile writing system for blind or visually-impaired people where letters are encoded on a physical surface as combinations of small protruding dots, allowing the reader to "read" them using his/her fingers.

Anything related to the Braille system, a writing system for blind or visually-impaired people where letters are encoded on a physical surface as combinations of small protruding dots, allowing the reader to "read" them using his/her fingers.

See Wikipedia page on Braille system.

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Are Braille media queries actually used?

I am interested with making my website accessible to the blind/visually impaired? I saw that there is a Braille media query on MDN. And, I believe it works like this: @media braille { // stylesheets for braille } I have never seen or heard of…
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Replace numbers of char after a specific char

I´m creating an application that converts text to Braille. Converting to Braille is not a problem, but I don´t know how to convert it back. Example 1: Converting numbers to Braille 1 = #a 123 = #abc 12 45 = #ab #de Example 2: Converting…
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Website for the blind?

I am trying to make a website for the blind compatible on all devices (iPad, iPhone, and PC). I am looking for some good demos and tutorials. Please help me learn how to make website for blind people using a Braille display. Thanks a lot.
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How to get the character corresponding to a Unicode character name?

I'm developing a Braille-to-text translator, and a nice feature to have is showing an output in Unicode's Braille patterns characters (say, kind of a Unicode Braille generator). Since I know the dots that are "enabled" in each cell ("Braille…
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Print braille characters in ncurses

I attempted to print braille characters in ncurses. This is my code: #include char *str = " ⠁⠂⠃⠄⠅⠆⠇⠈⠉⠊⠋⠌⠍⠎⠏\n" "⠐⠑⠒⠓⠔⠕⠖⠗⠘⠙⠚⠛⠜⠝⠞⠟\n" "⠠⠡⠢⠣⠤⠥⠦⠧⠨⠩⠪⠫⠬⠭⠮⠯\n" "⠰⠱⠲⠳⠴⠵⠶⠷⠸⠹⠺⠻⠼⠽⠾⠿\n"; int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) { …
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Emulate a taller terminal within GNOME Terminal and pan up and down

The problem: I need to be able to run TUI programs that do no fit in a 9-line high terminal inside a nine-line terminal by panning up and down. The set-up: I have a Raspian computer connected to a 9-line Braille display (Canute 360). The Braille is…
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Can I Turn ON / OFF Talkback programmatically?

I'm working on a university project for blind people who use Android phones (a Braille Keyboard) . So i need disable talkback when user use the keyboard and then enable it again. (for using multitouch on the screen). So I created a new sample simple…
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How to "iterate" over submatrixes in matlab

I have 36x80 Matrix in Matlab. It consists of 3x2 arrays which are the symbols of the Braille. i.e. 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 ..... 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 ..... 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 ..... ..................... Where first 3x2 submatrix represent "p" letter 0 0 0 1 0…
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How can I get words instead of letters in my Braille to Text conversion project?

I am working on a braille to text project and I created a braille keyboard using 7 push buttons. The output is display in a 128x64 lcd display. But it gives only letters. How can I get the words instead of letters? And I need to remove the…
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Strange behavior of Voice Over and Braille board in ios7

In my iPhone application I use Braille board with Voice Over. I have found a problem in ios 7. This issue is easy to reproduce. I start my application and enter some symbol on Braille board (exept enter symbol). Then, in an application I navigate to…
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How to use the keybord as a braille keyboard in Delphi?

I tried working on events onKeyDown and onKeyUp. The program works perfectly when only two keys are pressed. For combinations of more then 2 keys, if 2 keys are already pressed (and so they are down), the pressure of another key isn't caught and so…
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Recognize horizontal and vertical lines for Braille characters segmentation

I am currently writing an OpenCV program to recognize and translate Braille characters into Spanish. For the time being, I can recognize the Braille points and retrieve their centroids successfully. In order to divide the points into characters, I…
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How can I add a character before every capital letter in a terminal emulator's output (for a Braille display)?

TL;DR? How can I change every instance of one character (e.g. 'E') in a terminal window to another string of characters (e.g. '~E'), moving all other characters along in the window in the process? So: abcdEfghij becomes: abcd~Efghij This should…
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Regex for complex uppercase-lowercase scenarios

I'm working on an app that adapts text to braille specifications and it has some tricky rules on how to handle uppercase, I'd like some help. The rules are: Before a single uppercase letter, add ":" :This is an :Example Before multiple…
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Supporting braille reader users

If I built a website that is compatible with screen readers (as we should of course all do) would braille readers also be automatically compatible too or are there any differences I should be aware of?
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