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Translate English to braille and braille back to English using Unified English Braille (UEB), Grade 1 and Grade 2.

Paste braille or type it cell by cell. The decoder checks its answer by translating it back.

Turn English into large braille cells you can print, save as an image, or send to an embosser as a BRF file.

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.

Choose dots to see every meaning that cell can have in UEB. Most cells mean different things in different places.

How the six-dot cell works, how the alphabet is built, and a short self-test. A starting point, not a course.

The 26 letters, their dot numbers, and the pattern that lets you learn them ten at a time.

How the numeric indicator turns the first ten letters into digits, and what happens with dates, times, decimals and fractions.

Punctuation, indicators and common symbols in UEB, with the signs that share a cell or change with position.

Every Grade 2 contraction in Unified English Braille, generated from the engine, with a lookup that names the contractions in any word.

The Dolch sight words in Grade 2 braille, with the contractions in each one named.

One printable page: letters, digits, punctuation, indicators and the contractions you meet most.

Three ways to store braille as plain text, what each one is for, and a converter between them.

What we offer, the tools and learning pages here, and who runs the site.

Report a translation that looks wrong, an accessibility barrier or a mistake on a page.

The engine, how it is built and pinned, the published test corpus, and its known limits.

What every rule and fact here rests on, and when it was last checked.

What we store and send: in short, nothing you type.

The rules for using our site, in plain words. In short: it’s free, your text stays on your device, and the braille is not certified transcription.

What you can rely on the braille for, and where you need a person who reads braille.

Who made the parts we build on, their licences, and how to get the source.