Braille Label

I have been asked to produce labels with Swedish Braille numbers but I am unsure of their characteristics, height, diameter, spacing etc.

No, Braille numbers are the same in Britain and Sweden, written as a though j of the alphabet. Of course if you want to spell out numbers in Braille "One" as opposed to 1 it's a different story.

2009-04-01 07:44:08 by davey_hayes

Video: Melanie Gonick Karina Pikhart, '09, demonstrates the 6-dot braille labelmaker.

I bought a new brand of bleach yesterday.
It had the word 'bleach' in braille on it, beside the barcode.

I looked it up in the dictionary to figure out what it was.
No other product in my bathroom had any embossing on it.
Now that I know the alphabet, it would be handy.

I have sometimes included shopping for my neighbours after eye operations, but now I'm thinking they only asked me for basics. What if they had preferred a choice? Another bossy neighbour offers, but I've heard him say "You don't want that, it's too expensive." and people decline his offer. I've heard them say "How much is it?" and him reply "Too much, you don't want to know."

If you have no choice about being blind, are you denied all other choices? Why doesn't every regular household product have embossed Braille labels as standard? How can they possibly choose? What if they would like to buy, say, condoms? Or anything more personal and yet normal? I would dread being dependent on how others feel.

Slowly but surely just like barcodes everything will have braille codes. Its going to take a while but it wioll be done. The trial lawyers have several class action lawsuits already about this.

2007-11-11 21:50:33 by WomanWhoReads

The stickers use an easy peel-and-stick method to install.
Braille stickers are a very economical option for creating a Braille keyboard.
The Braille stickers are printed on Lexan® which is a exceptionally durable plastic which will last a long time.

Some blind people where saying computers that read thing for you, disavantage children with learning to read braille.
But they still need to read braille like totilet doors in public and food label.

The real issue isn't signs in public--simply having raised letters is usually sufficient.

This issue dates back about 25 years. When the first speech synthesizers came out, educators of the blind enthusiastically adopted them as an easier way of teaching children--and given the emerging "imformation economy" clearly blind people would soon use these instead of braille in daily life and work.

It was a disaster. Only about 12% of the children taughtthis way were even minimally litrate. The reasons--from a technical/phsychological standpoint--are a bit complicated. But here is the essence. LIteracy is not the physical act of reading or writing--it is the development of a crucial cognitiv skill: being able to readily correlate the informal structure of verbal communication with the more formal structure of the written language. And the medium isn't the key--whether its visual (printed) letters and writing with a pen or reading the tactile Braille alphabet ad using a stylus or Brailler to make the letters. The point is to develop the thinking skills that go with handling the physical symbols we use tfor writing.

And computers don'tdo that. Children only listen to speech--and didn't actually learn to recognize and use the symbols. And ended up functionally illeterate. This problem was reversed--and in many states the law now requires totally blind children to be taught braille. Unfortunately, given the miserable state of special education in our schools and the prevalence of school discrimination against children with disabilities, they are often not getting this instruction to the extent they should--as they used to in the specialized schools for the blind.

NOTE--that's nothing against computers with speech output (I'd be pretty hypocritical to say otherwise--I'm using it to type this answer!). In everyday life they are usually easier and far more practical than Brailly for most purposes. But blind children MUST develop the thinking/cognitive skills--and Braille is an essential tool for doing that.

2007-07-24 15:16:14 by jobees

Price: $19.95 $14.95

Available in # 3 bright easy to read color combinations
Large Print labels adhere to key tops
Black on White

Say inside the lift or elevator, is braille labels or keypad with a protude dot on number 5 better to press for the floor number. I'm working on a barrier free project. With explanation will be very much appreciate.

what are you asking?

The only thing I can think is you meant to say braile dots OR the number 5....If I suddenly went blind tommorow, because I have glaucoma, I think a raised number 5 would be better. I dont know how to read braile.

2007-08-04 01:44:21 by what hack?

I'm in the process of creating something tactile for my blind student who is learning about the different types of graphs in his 3rd grade math class. I want to create pre-made graph labels in Braille but am curious to know what would be some labels I could make that are commonly used in graphs? So far I have the days of the week, months of the year and the seasons and I plan on making individual letters and numbers. Any other suggestions? Serious answers only please. Thanks in advance!

Stress and strain graphs are common in engineering, in accounting it would be quantity over time, or production over time. The census is this year and it covers the population growth over time.

Then there are pie charts or pie graphs that take a value of 100% and divide it into its components, like the time it takes to make a car, or the amount of money in your budget.

Bar graphs are most often used for quantity over time graphs since they cover a point in history not all the points in between. Stress graphs point out how much stress an object can take before it reaches a plastic zone and then suddenly failure. This graph covers ALL the points across it so that unlike a bar graph each tiny interval of time has a real value, not just the ones noted in the margins of the graph.

You can buy various grades of sandpaper, use felt and burlap or other cloth for the texture to be different for each value. Make a bar graph of the us population (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_populati on) or a pie graph with an example household budget, I would use various textures for each entry. You could also do a chart with the sales of your new pretend automobile the Tabby Cat, and then pretend to have a decrease in sales due to the economy and and due to a brake problem. You could cut the felt or sand paper to show the peaks and valleys over time for the sales of your pretend automobile.

2010-03-02 10:39:32 by jilly