About Braille

Alphabet Braille is an embossed form of writing used by people who are blind. They are able to read and write by using their sense of touch.

For some years, Charles Barbier, a French Army officer, tried to perfect a system to reproduce Morse Code signals of dots and dashes in an embossed form. His experiments were unsuccessful.

However, the system developed by Louis Braille, a blind Frenchman, dispensed with the dashes and used permutations of a six dot grid. The system was perfected in 1825 and has remained unchanged since, apart from the addition of the letter W which is not used in the French language.