#braille

CoinOfNoteAnd another follow up piece in this week's E-Sylum on another article I shared last week is this update to the article on the Louis <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/commemorative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#commemorative</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/coin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coin</a>: <a href="https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n33.html#article13" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n33.html#article13</a>(Yes, I am totally taking the credit for generating interest in these. If Wayne Homren, the E-Sylum editor is here and if you have any articles you'd like me to boost, just get in touch! 🤣)<a href="https://historians.social/tags/Numismatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Numismatics</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/CoinCollecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CoinCollecting</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blind</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/numismatics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@numismatics</a>

Devin Prater :blind:Y'all I am just plain inconsolable right now. All Google is doing for Braille commands on Android TalkBack is using the same command set as BRLTTY. How do I know? Well see the Braille Edge display has a few tons of buttons. And I pressed them, in different combinations. Almost none of the non-typing keys do anything. At all. No error tone or anything. Because taking care with individual devices what's that haha. But something strange happened when I hit the right pad left arrow and right pad right arrow together. It made an error noise. Well I decided to go into a text field and try it. There, it tried to paste text. So then I looked into the BRLTTY commands, and yep, there it is. That command pastes at the screen cursor in BRLTTY.You may then ask, "well why not just read the command list?" Because the command list does not include any special buttons on the braille displays. Because surely all blind people just use the Orbit Reader and NLS EReader right? /s Because we need many more blind people in positions of power. Also the Up and Down thumb keys on the NLS EReader I'm pretty sure move to the previous and next item, although it could be prev/next line, I'm not sure right now. So yeah, google is just hoping that BRLTTY will take care of them. So freaking heart breaking. Like they could have gone those and mapped commands to these extra buttons because that's kinda what they're there for. But nah lol let's just go go go. Meh. At least the expansion of the Bluetooth keyboard commands maybe hints that we'll soon(tm) be able to customize the Braille commands. Maybe. Would be ice. Because my goodness it's great to do so on iOS! I can have the left set of arrow keys move by heading and link, and the right one for previous/next item and rotor option. And up+right to go to top, and down+right to go to bottum, and up+left to scroll to top of list, and down+left to scroll to bottum of list. Stuff like that.<a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Android</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/talkback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#talkback</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#google</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#braille</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blind</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#accessibility</a>

Sarah MatthewsI’ve written a few thoughts on Eileen, 2016, by Ottessa Moshfegh, a memorable book that came my way unexpectedly and which surprised me! <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookReview</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Storygraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Storygraph</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/ca5e911e-36c3-4ff1-8ef9-c030e1e3a15d" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/ca5e911e-36c3-4ff1-8ef9-c030e1e3a15d</a>

Lanie Molinar Carmelo🌟 Tech Toward Triumph: Help Me Access the World Through Braille 🌟Hi all,I’ve launched a Crowdfunder campaign to raise support for a Handy Tech Activator Braille display—a device that would make a huge difference in my life. My mom and I created this campaign together, and she wrote a timeline of my health journey and everything I’ve been through. It’s been a long road, and this technology would help me move forward with more independence and opportunity.🔗 <a href="https://www.crowdfunder.com/p/techtowardi-triump" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.crowdfunder.com/p/techtowardi-triump</a>This Braille display would allow me to:<ul><li>Access digital content independently</li><li>Continue my studies and creative work</li><li>Stay connected and advocate for myself more effectively</li></ul>If you can donate or share the campaign, it would mean the world to me. Every bit of support helps me take one more step toward triumph.Thank you for reading, supporting, and believing in me. 💙<a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/BrailleDisplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BrailleDisplay</a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/AccessibilityMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AccessibilityMatters</a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/TechTowardTriumph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechTowardTriumph</a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/DisabilityAdvocacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DisabilityAdvocacy</a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/Crowdfunder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Crowdfunder</a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/BlindTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlindTech</a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/HandyTechActivator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HandyTechActivator</a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blind</a> <a href="https://allovertheplace.ca/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disability</a>

Calishat<a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disability</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#braille</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/3dPrinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#3dPrinting</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/hardware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hardware</a> <a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> 'A manual brailler costs a little under $1,000 and electric braillers cost significantly more... I decided to try to design one.'<a href="https://budgetbrailler.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/budgetbraillerblog-intro/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://budgetbrailler.wordpress.com/2025/08/15/budgetbraillerblog-intro/</a>

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseBudgetBraillerBlog: BudgetBraillerBlog Intro. “A manual brailler costs a little under $1,000 and electric braillers cost significantly more. Given that I was just at a 3D printing festival and you can build a 3D printer for under $200, I decided to try to design one.”<a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/16/budgetbraillerblog-budgetbraillerblog-intro/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/16/budgetbraillerblog-budgetbraillerblog-intro/</a>

Pyrzout :vm:This Polaroid-esque OCR Machine Turns Text to Braille in the Wild <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/08/15/this-polaroid-esque-ocr-machine-turns-text-to-braille-in-the-wild/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2025/08/15/this-polaroid-esque-ocr-machine-turns-text-to-braille-in-the-wild/</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/computervision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computervision</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#accessibility</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/tesseract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tesseract</a>-ocr <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/ArduinoHacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArduinoHacks</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RaspberryPi</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/raspberrypi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#raspberrypi</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computer</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/impaired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#impaired</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#braille</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/seeing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seeing</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/vision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vision</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blind</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/read" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#read</a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/ocr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ocr</a>

DAVID WOODBRIDGEApple Accessibility surprises me again with their work on Braille display functionality for iOS/iPad OS. Along side Braille Access (reading and creating .brf files plus other cool stuff), in iOS/iPad OS 26 beta, we now have Item Overview. From the Overview Item screen: Read the first cells of multiple items at once using item overview. Press dots 6 7 8 at the same time to toggle item overview. Set number of cells per item from 2 to 7. Works amazingly well. NB - Braille Access is toggled with 7 and 8 pressed together. Enjoy Woody <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/a11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#a11y</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://dragonscave.space/tags/ScreenReader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScreenReader</a>

CoinOfNoteIt's always great to see the story behind the coin. E-Sylum this week has an article with a video on the 2009 United States Louis Braille $1 coin.<a href="https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n32.html#article7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.coinbooks.org/v28/esylum_v28n32.html#article7</a><a href="https://historians.social/tags/Numismatics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Numismatics</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Newsletter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Newsletter</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/CoinCollecting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CoinCollecting</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blind</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/numismatics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@numismatics</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@histodons</a>

Tanya McGee Wheatley 💜🥰Good night! <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/3GoodThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#3GoodThings</a> 1. Finished a chapter in 2 different Braille books. 2. Hubs got his hair cut and took a power bank to have it recycled at Batteries Plus. It was beginning to bow and we were worried. Glad to have it out of the house. 3. Watched the next epi of Chief of War. Being sucked in further. Sleep well and may your dreams be out of this world. 🤗🫶❤️🫂 <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/GoodNight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoodNight</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/AppleTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AppleTV</a>

MishaMy train of thoughts when I saw this: (braille with a sign saying "please don't touch"):1. "Don't touch"? Isn't that exactly what braille is for? This sign is so stupid. 2. Ah wait, it is me who is stupid. The sign is of course meant for people who can see, like me. *We* should not touch it. People who can't see won't even know that the sign is there. 3. .....or does the braille maybe also say "don't touch"?<a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blind</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#braille</a>

Sarah MatthewsI’ve got myself so comfy on the sofa reading on my <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a> display this morning, can someone have lunch for me please? I don’t want to move haha! <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blind</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a>

Tanya McGee Wheatley 💜🥰Good night! <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/3GoodThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#3GoodThings</a> 1. Got the laundry done I wanted to. 2. We watched Smoke and Foundation tonight. Was nice to just sit down and not worry about things for a couple hours. ❤️ 3. Finished a chapter in Braille. Sleep well and may your dreams be out of this world. 🤗🫶❤️🫂 <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/GoodNight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoodNight</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/AppleTV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AppleTV</a>

Tanya McGee Wheatley 💜🥰Good night! <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/3GoodThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#3GoodThings</a> 1. Finished another chapter in Braille. 2. Got the laundry done I wanted to do yesterday. 3. The pharmacy told me they couldn’t get my insulin until the middle of the month so after asking here on Mastodon to find out if the insulin pens are accessible, I found out they were and the pharmacy called my doctor’s office to get my prescription changed. We’ll go tomorrow to pick it up. Sleep well and may your dreams be out of this world. 🤗🫶❤️🫂 <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/GoodNIght" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoodNIght</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Thankful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thankful</a>

WenweiI just requested three <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a> on Demand picture books. Don’t judge me. I want to feel something other than math graphs! I’ll get to feel spiders and dogs and unicorns and things!

Tanya McGee Wheatley 💜🥰Good night! <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/3GoodThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#3GoodThings</a> 1. Watched the second epi of Chief of War and am drawn in even more. 2. Finished a chapter in Braille in the book Immortal by Morning by Lynsay Sands. 3. Hubs and I finished another audio book and have moved on to the next! 📚 Sleep well and may your dreams be out of this world. 🤗🫶❤️🫂 <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/GoodNight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoodNight</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/AudioBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AudioBook</a>

vrtxdHave you ever wondered how the Braille writing system works? Turns out the basics are pretty easy to learn! If you have vision, here is a chart to help you memorize the numbers and the letters. A secret, invisible language you can read with your fingertips – how cool is that?<a href="https://dotpict.net/works/5845358" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://dotpict.net/works/5845358</a> 🗓️ Wed 6 Aug 2025 🏳️ Public domain license 📱 Hand-drawn w/ dotpict 🌞 Light mode 🩷 Thanks for all your faves, comments, boosts & follows!<a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/Blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blind</a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/Vision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vision</a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/Learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Learning</a> <a href="https://piipitin.fi/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PixelArt</a>

Devin Prater :blind:I has an idea! Since I can't hear perfectly, and I need to hear people at work, while also doing work, I think I'll try the Live Captions part of Braille Access. I mean I love it when people talk about me, I really do. But sometimes I want to know what people say about me, lol. Anyway, Live Captions works in this beta, so that'll be nice to try. In the next version of iOS, they should make a thing where if someone says your name, the phone vibrates.<a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/iOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#iOS</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blind</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#accessibility</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a>

Sarah MatthewsHere’s my review of The Port of London Murders, 1938, by Josephine Bell, a murder mystery set around the London docks with vivid characters and fascinating social history <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookReview</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Storygraph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Storygraph</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8a3d0acc-5456-4e2f-adcc-454acc3a08e8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8a3d0acc-5456-4e2f-adcc-454acc3a08e8</a>

Tanya McGee Wheatley 💜🥰Good night! <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/3GoodThings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#3GoodThings</a> 1. Finished two chapters in Braille today. 🙌🏻 2. Made another bowlful of egg salad to feed us for a few days. 😋 3. Hubs got the blade on the mower changed and the yard mowed. He also got the rest of that limb that fell cut up and put in the yard waste can to be picked up tomorrow. Sleep well and may your dreams take you to the stars! 🤗🫶❤️🫂 <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/GoodNight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GoodNight</a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/Braille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Braille</a>

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