Braille
Fingertip reading system
Braille was Louis Braille (1809–1852), the French educator who lost his sight as a child and later developed the raised-dot reading system that bears his name.
He created it while a student at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, adapting a military night-writing code: Braille revolutionized literacy for the blind. (Lowercase braille is the writing system itself.)
inventor
Of or from Paris's nation
- innovationCreating something original
- systemConnected parts forming whole
- codeSymbolic communication system
- alphabetLanguage's letter system
legacy
Absence of vision
- visually impairedHaving diminished sight
- low visionSignificant uncorrectable sight loss
- educationSystematic development of mind
- literacyAbility to read, write
French
Of or from Paris's nation
- innovationCreating something original
- systemConnected parts forming whole
- codeSymbolic communication system
blindness
Absence of vision
- visually impairedHaving diminished sight
- low visionSignificant uncorrectable sight loss
- educationSystematic development of mind
- touchtouch, feel, touching, caress, feeling
- blindnessblindness, blind spot, total blindness, partial blindness, low vision
- codespassword, binary, DNA, RNA, QR code
- communication systemsalphabet, sign language, Morse code, hieroglyphics, cuneiform
- writing systemsalphabet, vowel, alphabets, Cyrillic alphabet, consonant
- dot patternspolka dot, halftone, stippling, pointillism, Ben-Day dots
sensory modality
Brailleprint
Transfer text to paper
ink print · sight-reading · Latin script · handwriting · typography
- braille alphabetTactile writing system
- braille booksLiterature in raised dots
- braille signageTouch-based written communication for the blind
- Louis Braille
- braille signsRaised-dot text for blind readers
- braille slateManual tactile embossing tool