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.
