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Would a unicode English->Braille translator be useful to you? (self.Blind)
submitted 7y ago by Probono_Bonobo
Hey, /r/blind. I tried to translate some English text into Braille today using some online tools, and I was surprised at how frustrating it was to share the results. Namely, I couldn't copy & paste the output into an email because the glyphs were all formatted as images. Is there a good reason for this? Would a Braille converter that supports copy & paste be useful to the blind community? I notice that the unicode encoding scheme has a full collection of glyphs for Braille characters, so there's nothing intrinsically preventing one from pasting Braille into email, Facebook, text messages, etc. I just don't know if that would be useful, or help to make the web a better, more accessible place, as I'm not blind.
Here are the top 3 Google search results I found for "English to Braille translator" to show you what I mean:
* $1
* $1 (this one actually formats the output in a braille *font*, which would be really difficult to share)
* $1
Here are the top 3 Google search results I found for "English to Braille translator" to show you what I mean:
* $1
* $1 (this one actually formats the output in a braille *font*, which would be really difficult to share)
* $1
fastfinge 2 points
I believe one of the changes in $1 does what you want.
Marconius 2 points
Text is already translated into braille when you utilize a braille display with the computer or mobile device… unless you were trying to show somebody who has vision what the appropriate braille would look like, I don't see how those of us without vision would benefit in any way with the translation service. We can dictate, tight with normal keyboards, or type with braille display keyboards to write messages, but at no point are we ever actually using a braille typeface.
Probono_Bonobo [OP] 1 points
Thanks for your feedback! I figured that this was probably a solved problem, but I wanted to put the offer out there just in case.
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