Today, English speaking blind children are mostly taught Grade 2 braille, though Grade 1 braille (every letter written out) is still sometimes taught in early elementary school.

Note: You can type in grade 1 and grade 2 braille. Grade 1 braille can be useful if you’re new to braille. Grade 2 can be useful if you’re a more advanced user or if you want to use abbreviations.

Grade 2 Braille, which is used most often by readers and which was tested in the Braille Challenge, has dozens of contractions to represent common letter combinations, prefixes, and suffixes.

He wanted a way for soldiers to communicate with each other in secret without using lights or sounds. The expanded English system, called Grade-2 Braille, was complete by 1905.

It supports Braille Grade 1 and Grade 2 and is only available in English at the moment. The keyboard is rolling out to all devices that run Android 5.0 or later starting today.

The school caters for visually impaired and disabled learners. “I wrote the program in such a way that there are different levels of complexity between Grade 1 and Grade 2 braille.

Braille was born about 20 miles east of Paris in Coupvray, France, on Jan. 4, 1809. As a boy of 3, Louis was playing at his father’s leather workbench with a sharp cobbler’s tool when he poked ...