braille
what is braille?
Louis Braille (January 4, 1809 – January 6, 1852) was the inventor of braille[1], a world-wide system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing. Braille is read by passing the fingers over characters made up of an arrangement of one to six embossed points. It has been adapted to almost every known language, except Asian languages based on characters. He was also blind.
The significance of the braille system was not identified until 1868, sixteen years after Louis Braille died, when Dr Thomas Rhodes Armitage and a group of four blind men and one woman established the British and Foreign Society for Improving the Embossed Literature of the Blind (later the Royal National Institute of the Blind), which published books in Braille's system.
Braille has been adapted to almost every major national language and is the primary system of written communication for visually impaired persons around the world.
The asteroid 9969 Braille was named in honor of him.
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Who uses it
Braille is not only used by blind and partially sighted people but also by teachers,local authorities wishing to impart information to the blind and partially sighted.
Requirements
To produce braille you need to either have a braille machine to emboss directly or a computer attached to a braille embosser, this acts like a printer. In order to produce braille to emboss you will need braille software. This allows you to use a word processor normally and then convert your document to braille. We are a distrubutors of Index embossers and Braille Maker software.
