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I fail to understand the distinction between digital and analogue writing systems alluded to in the very first sentence of this article. I would have thought that all character based writing systems were digital. I will have to see if I can find a copy of 'The World's Writing Systems' in a reference library. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.103.197.174 (talk) 08:58, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
The older historical terms are grade 1 braille and grade 2 braille.
Over 5 years ago, there was a consensus of braille experts and educators to shift to the terms "uncontracted braille" and "contracted braille". The problem is that some people assumed that grade 1 was for use in grade 1 in school (i.e. the year after kindergraden), and you used grade 2 braille the next year. By extension, someone starting high school would be using grade 9 braille.
Anyone who want to confirm this can google the terms involved, and will see the heavier use of contracted braille in recent years, and the decline of the use of the term grade 2 braille.
I wanted to post this first in the talk section, and then make the change, so that people will understand this is the same concept, newer terminology; and not vandalism
Silver dot (talk) 16:06, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
It looks like maybe the W and Y Braille images are reversed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.247.174.22 (talk) 05:52, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
The first sentence of the Braille page reads "The Braille system is a method that is widely used by people who are visually impaired...", however other parts of the page seem to contradict the "widely used" part. A further clue that this may not be an accurate statement of fact may be found at this Bank of England FAQ page which answers the question "Has the Bank considered using braille on banknotes to help blind people identify the different denominations?" with "Yes but on the advice of The Royal Institute for the Blind the Bank has not included this because very few blind people now read braille ...".
I would like to see the statement reflect fact; something along the lines of "The Braille system is a method of reading and writing designed for use by the visually impaired. It was the first digital form of writing". Leboite (talk) 13:13, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
I'm writing this note here first to explain that "code" is not used in the "secret code" sense but in both the linguistics and computer science senses. Remember, languages have oral codes and written codes which must be acquired/learned in order to understand and use them.
I'm also revealing the internal structure of the lede paragraphs:
I will continute to maintain this structure all the while trying to keep the lede to one (small) screen length. Albeit interesting, any other sidetrack information or modifiers should appear in the proper sections below. --CJ Withers (talk) 15:10, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
I've made the lede more concise by using, for example, "improved", removing "fingers" (tactile, palpable + the foto are plenty), removing "supports", etc. Also, the lede, as an introduction starts with what is familiar to the reader, not details, hence mentioning supports where people can commonly find Braille messages. I've also removed the passive voice and weasel words like "may". Now, for the nitpicking. Giving a seemingly American example because it's the only one or one of two is kosher. "Paper money" doesn't work as bills also exist in plastic. Using "bills" the way it was in this article never was or is a problem on Wikipedia, so relax. :-) As for saliency, remember, the lede introduces, not delves into details. Again, the words "palpable" and "tactile" plus the image speak for themselves. If you want to get into reading techniques and rumiate on how sensitive the finger tip must be, then put your info in the reading techniques section. NPOV? I'll dismiss that fallacy. However, I'm sure you're not against the stomach being called an organ or an amoeba being a genus. Again, I wrote "snarl" word as the title of this section because that is exactly what it is for you: a word you're not keen on and which provokes a reaction. Had your read the word "as" in "As a code", you may not have reacted so hastily. Sorry that you feel your opinion to shun "code" save for one instance is more important than precise metalanguage. I'm an expert on writing systems, so saying that improving the quality of an article with precise language thanks to my expertise is NPOV is ludicrous. I repeat, just because the users do not call/consider their writing system a code does not mean it is not one. Languages are social communication codes on several levels. To say otherwise dehuminanizes the marvelous essence of language. To learn more about "snarl" and "purr" words, please see S._I._Hayakawa. It is a major bias error to say that all writing systems "write" words. Writing systems represent all types of concepts, for example numbers, images, commands, in addition to paralinguistic, communicational elements of language such as style, appearance, attitude, etc. Again, you're talking to an expert here. Please study semiotics, semantics and general linguistics so that you can be articulate in writing systems. A good place to start to understand signs and codes is with Sassure. The lede still needs work on two points: 1. concentrating contracted Braille info, and 2. A pithy one-sentence on the relevance of Braille literacy to employability. -CJ Withers (talk) 11:47, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
You are obviously not familiar with Sassure as shown from your "c" tautology. "C" in fact represents the sounds /s/ and /k/ in addition to forming part of a digraph. Please read up on Alphabetic principle. In fact, that is why uncontracted Braille is used to start to learn to read: the Alphabetic principle. As for bills/bank notes in Canada, they use a _tactile_ feature, i.e. the full six-dot Braille cell. The encoding is what's different, not the Braille writing system. If you google Braille banknotes, in one click you can learn that Hong Kong used them too, though with "normal" encoding for digits. --CJ Withers (talk) 15:26, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
Two comments. First, let's not dumb down the article by explaining "fingers" when the picture is clear and "tactile" and "palpable" are too. Are people going to use the least sensitive parts of their body to read Braille? Are there people who read Braille with their forehead? Come on, get off it. You're being ridiculous. In fact, the "finger" mention is fit for the Simple English version of the article and for a section on reading techniques (one or two fingers, etc.). Check it out. Second, regarding codes, read up on teaching literacy because the skills taught for reading are called "decoding skills". --CJ Withers (talk) 15:38, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
the filename has been changed. -DePiep (talk) 01:00, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
So "BLANK" is cell with dots-0 (U+2800): or .
Now there is also mentioned "SPACE" apparently with dots-45 (U_2818) by File:Braille Currency.svg or (images NOT to be mixed with visual variants dots-45: file:Japanese YoonDakuten Braille.svg and FILE:Korean Initial B Braille.svg).
The general name for 45 is the 'literal index'. (4 is the 'numerical index' – I have no idea why. Perhaps some non–Grade 2 technical code?) D&B say the "absence of all dots is the space character." — kwami (talk) 20:46, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
They did not rename the file, because minor importance.Currency.svg&diff=75614148&oldid=75610782 I have found no source for using dots-45 as Space. -DePiep (talk) 10:56, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
I have started commenting out charts that I cannot confirm. The UNESCO documents have proven to be wrong in every case I was able to confirm, so we cannot in good conscience use them as a primary source. Braille is the kind of thing which is easy to get wrong by people who don't use it. For Russian Braille all we have is a chart published in 1907 which is obsolete in several respects. For Yugoslav and Thai, we have nothing. Etc. — kwami (talk) 21:19, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
Template:ISO 639 name fr-Brai shows up in the template list during editing. Some sort of transcluded transclusion? Does it need sorting out? -- Alan Liefting (talk - contribs) 09:48, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
((lang|fr-Brai|((Unicode|⠏⠗⠑⠍⠊⠑⠗))))
, in section History. If that fr-Brai a correct language code, the template should be created; otherwise the lang-template removed (Unicode kept). -DePiep (talk) 10:48, 22 August 2012 (UTC)http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/14/technology-brings-braille-back-apple --Espoo (talk) 07:31, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
what exactly is a decade?
i think i figured it out.. but i think it should be properly defined. ≈Sensorsweep (talk) 00:07, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
In the Derivation section of the article, it is nothing but confusing to try to understand a new alphabet with a table that employs colors (black, red, green) but with no explanation of them.
Or at least I can say that the article contains zero instances of the words black, red, green, or color.
To whoever is knowledgeable about Braille (I am not), please either get rid of the colors, or explain clearly why they are there. I think getting rid of them would be best, since the article already contains no explanation of them whatsoever.Daqu (talk) 14:30, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Is the Braille text actually _Helen _Keller? Where are the second Es of each word? Why don't they match with the translation given @ [1] or the blocks of Braille? Is it a matter of Grade-2 of English Braille or Unified English Braille? Is this official coin wrong? ※ Sobreira ※ Sobreira ◣◥ (parlez) 12:48, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Based on English Braille, the last cell is 'en' and 'er'. (I maybe wrong since I don't know braille) 159.53.78.142 (talk) 16:00, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Is there any particular reason that this entire paragraph even exists? It doesn't really seem to add anything at all:
A sighted child who is reading at a basic level should be able to understand common words and answer simple questions about the information presented.[10] The child should also have enough fluency to get through the material in a timely manner. Over the course of a child's education, these foundations are built upon in order to teach higher levels of math, science, and comprehension skills.[10] Children who are blind not only have the educational disadvantage of not being able to see, but they also miss out on the very fundamental parts of early and advanced education if not provided with the necessary tools. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1416domination (talk • contribs) 16:46, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
A paragraph here said that “The next ten, ending in w, are the same again, except that for this series position 6 (purple dot) is used without position 3. These are â ê î ô û ë ï ü ö w”. Since native French words don't have O with diaeresis; should ö be changed to œ?-✉ Hello World! 14:13, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
"64 solutions are possible using one or more dots.[3]" It's literally 63, but maybe the cited source is still more informative?2607:FCC8:620C:A000:4422:9DDB:7D2:C445 (talk) 16:03, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
64 would be correct if no dots are used, but that doesn't fit the language of the sentence. Trumblej1986 (talk) 16:53, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
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"Braille literacy is a social-justice issue" in the intro needs to be clarified and cited. It appears that a good attempt was made in the Literacy section, but this sentence needs more of a direct tie in and citation, in order to not appear like original research. This is a topic I know little about, however, so can't address it directly. Trumblej1986 (talk) 16:51, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
User:Kwamikagami gently pointed out the ref for this. About halfway through the NPR recording is the sourced information. Tag was appropriately removed by Kwamikagami. Trumblej1986 (talk) 20:44, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Can someone better explain if the derivation section is talking about Braille's original system, or the modern system? And can the charts be better explained; what does "shift down" and "shift right" refer to? Trumblej1986 (talk) 17:10, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
It's the derivation of both. Unless you mean the quickly obsolete original proposal, for which see 1829 braille. I tried clarifying the wording, but rather than changing the convenient word "shift" in the table, I used it in the text. If that still doesn't work, please explain what isn't clear, so I know how to address it. — kwami (talk) 21:21, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
Excellent. Now it makes sense to me. I wasn't understanding before what exactly was being shifted: a single dot or a whole set of dots. With the edits to the text you made, it's much clearer. I appreciate it. Thank you. Trumblej1986 (talk) 21:34, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
An informal RFC has opened at talk: Symbols for zero#Braille zero that somebody familiar with Braille may be able to advise upon. Thank you. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 13:45, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
I would describe this as 2 × 3: width × height, columns × rows, x-axis followed by y-axis. As it is in the 2nd and 3rd quotes above, from elsewhere in the article. ◃Amniarix▹ (talk) 15:56, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
Physiologically, only 29 sounds-signs of speech-thinking-worldview can be pronounced by optimal articulation. And one voiceless slit consonant sound-sign of speech-thinking-worldview "soundlessness-intuition-meaning-reason" does not have its own sound. It would be advisable at least for blind people to use the same relief-dot code for all languages to display individual letters for each sound-sign of speech-thinking, punctuation marks, and for each number and operations with numbers. To develop this code, a basis in the form of a matrix of 6 columns and 5 rows is suitable. A 6-point pattern of a standard embossed dot font gives 64 characters, including a blank character. If you give 30 characters to letters, then there are still 34 characters for numbers and other symbols. Enough for the main purposes in the letter.
A version of such a new letter code for blind people has already been developed: Makeev A. K. General classification of consonants and vowel sounds-signs of speech-thinking / A. K. Makeev // Kulturologiya, art history and philology: modern views and scientific research: sb. st. on the materials of the XXXIV International Scientific and Practical Conference "Culturology, Art History and Philology: Modern Views and Scientific Research". – № 3(30). – M., Izd. "Internauka", 2020. - 108 pp. pp. 65–75. Alex makeyev (talk) 08:06, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
You don't say "I have three softwares on my computer" any more than you say "I listened to five musics this morning". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2788:1008:6D6:E2CB:4EFF:FE88:1A2D (talk) 00:14, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Per user request, I plan to record a spoken version of the article soon (intro/lede only). Any feedback is welcomed. 0101Abc (talk) 01:12, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
The article says Braille is a non-linear writing system. But is it really? It's written in lines from left-to-right. Can anyone please clarify this? Thanks <3 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hexadecimal99 (talk • contribs) 02:54, 30 September 2023 (UTC)