Braille Translator
Turn text into Grade-1 braille cells and back.
Grade-1 braille. Each letter becomes a raised-dot cell.
BRAILLE
ENCODING β
THE HISTORY β’
Louis Braille, blind since childhood, devised his raised-dot system in 1824 at the age of 15, adapting a military "night writing" code. Each character is a cell of up to six dots read by touch, and it remains the primary tactile writing system for blind readers worldwide.
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