About UEB Translator

This is a free braille translator that runs in your browser. Type English and get Unified English Braille (UEB), Grade 1 or Grade 2, or paste braille and get the English back. You don't install anything or make an account.

Our tools

• Braille Translator & Decoder: Translate English to braille and braille back to English using Unified English Braille (UEB), Grade 1 and Grade 2.
• Braille to English Translator: Paste braille or type it cell by cell. The decoder checks its answer by translating it back.
• Text to Braille Generator: Turn English into large braille cells you can print, save as an image, or send to an embosser as a BRF file.
• Online Braille Keyboard: Type braille with six keys, like a Perkins brailler, or tap the keys on screen. Each cell appears as you type and is read back as English.
• Braille Dot Finder: Choose dots to see every meaning that cell can have in UEB. Most cells mean different things in different places.
• Braille Contractions: Every Grade 2 contraction in Unified English Braille, generated from the engine, with a lookup that names the contractions in any word.

Learning braille

We also have short pages for people learning braille, or helping someone who is. They go from the six-dot cell all the way to a printable chart.

• How to Read Braille: How the six-dot cell works, how the alphabet is built, and a short self-test. A starting point, not a course.
• Braille Alphabet: The 26 letters, their dot numbers, and the pattern that lets you learn them ten at a time.
• Braille Numbers: How the numeric indicator turns the first ten letters into digits, and what happens with dates, times, decimals and fractions.
• Braille Punctuation and Symbols: Punctuation, indicators and common symbols in UEB, with the signs that share a cell or change with position.
• Common Braille Words: The Dolch sight words in Grade 2 braille, with the contractions in each one named.
• UEB Braille Chart: One printable page: letters, digits, punctuation, indicators and the contractions you meet most.
• BRF, Braille ASCII and Unicode Braille: Three ways to store braille as plain text, what each one is for, and a converter between them.

Why use it

• It's free. There's no sign-up and no limit on how much you translate.
• What you type stays on your device. Our privacy page explains how.
• It works on phones and computers, from the keyboard, and with screen readers.
• You get the braille as drawn cells, as Unicode braille text you can copy, and as Braille ASCII and BRF files.

Where the braille comes from

The braille comes from liblouis 3.39.0, open-source software that we didn't write, used with its UEB tables unmodified. Our credits page names the people behind it and the licences.

Who runs it

One independent developer in India builds and looks after UEB Translator. We aren't affiliated with the International Council on English Braille (ICEB), the Braille Authority of North America (BANA), the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) or the liblouis project.

Using the site is free. There are no ads today. If we add ads later, they'll sit below the tools. Our terms and conditions set out the rest.

Get in touch

If a translation looks wrong, something is hard to use, or you just have a question, write to us at support@uebtranslator.com. Our contact page says what to include.