Braille Slate Writer

Type English, get the exact braille cells to punch with a slate and stylus: mirrored, right to left, and wrapped to the number of cells on your slate, so the finished page reads left-aligned when you flip it over.

Live: https://joncrenshaw.github.io/BrailleTraductor/

Features

• Unified English Braille (UEB) Grade 1 (every letter spelled out) or Grade 2 (contracted, what most braille readers use): letters, contractions, capitals, numbers, and punctuation.
• Writing side view (mirrored, right to left, with a cell ruler counted from the right edge) and reading side view (the finished page).
• Word wrapping to your slate's cells per row; optional rows per page.
• Hover over, or tab to, any cell to see what it means and how it looks on both sides.
• Unicode braille text output for braille displays, screen readers, or pasting elsewhere.
• Keyboard and screen reader friendly: one tab stop into the slate, arrow keys to move between cells, every cell labelled, and polite announcements when the output changes.

Development

npm install
npm run dev      # http://localhost:5173
npm run check    # typecheck, lint, format, tests with coverage, build

Pushing to main runs the same checks in GitHub Actions and deploys to GitHub Pages.

Credits

Grade 2 translation uses liblouis (LGPL-2.1), compiled to WebAssembly by scripts/build-liblouis.sh. See public/liblouis/README.md.