Are you a sighted person who can read braille?
May 27, 2015 7:31 PM   Subscribe

I've been tasked to create a print design that incorporates some text in braille (I know, I know), and now I need some help with proofreading.

I learned that braille is not a one-for-one substitution for English orthography, so being a perfectionist I used BrailleTranslator.org to get a machine translation into Unified English Braille Code 2, and then hand-copied the output into Illustrator because the fonts didn't want to cooperate. This was the result. If you're a sighted person who is familiar with modern braille, I'd like you to please proofread it for me and let me know if there are any corrections I need to make. It's very short. Thank you!
posted by Faint of Butt to Writing & Language (8 answers total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
I do this for a living. Only one mistake: missing the "to" sign before the word "have". (Note that the "to" sign must have no space after it.)
posted by Melismata at 7:34 PM on May 27, 2015 [5 favorites]


Woops, another mistake: missing the "com" sign in communicate.
posted by Melismata at 7:35 PM on May 27, 2015 [2 favorites]


Oh, wait, you're using UEB? Then never mind. Except that it hasn't been adopted everywhere yet. I'll just shut up now.
posted by Melismata at 7:36 PM on May 27, 2015 [2 favorites]


Response by poster: Thanks, Melismata. Is there a different coding system you think I should use instead of UEB? This is for an American audience.
posted by Faint of Butt at 7:45 PM on May 27, 2015


Best answer: It's supposed to be adopted in January 2016, so unless your project is completely done and forgotten about before then, you're good to go.
posted by Melismata at 7:59 PM on May 27, 2015 [2 favorites]


Response by poster: In that case I guess I'll stick with UEB. It's good to be ahead of the curve, right? And you say it's fine as is?
posted by Faint of Butt at 8:11 PM on May 27, 2015


Best answer: "We need to have people up
there who can communicate
what it feels like, not just
pilots and engineers."
--Buzz Aldrin
posted by Melismata at 8:31 PM on May 27, 2015 [6 favorites]


Response by poster: That's it exactly. Thank you!
posted by Faint of Butt at 3:11 AM on May 28, 2015


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