Terms and conditions

Who we are

We’re UEB Translator, an independent project run by one developer in India. On this page, “we”, “us” and “our” mean UEB Translator, and “you” means anyone who uses our site. You can write to us at support@uebtranslator.com.

What we offer

Our site is a free braille translator that runs in your browser, with related tools and reference pages. You don’t need an account, and we don’t charge anything. Our tools run on your device, using the liblouis braille engine.

We may change, pause or stop any part of our site at any time. We can’t promise it will always be available.

Your text and your braille

What you type stays on your device, and it stays yours. Our tools translate your text inside your browser, so we never receive it. You keep every right you have in the text you type. We claim no rights in it, or in the braille our tools make from it.

Our privacy page explains how your browser blocks our pages from sending your text anywhere. It also lists the two small values our pages can store in your browser.

Cookies

We use Google Analytics, which sets cookies to count visits (except for visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland). If we add ads, Google and its partners will use cookies to serve them, and visitors who must be asked will be asked first. Our privacy page explains what would change and how to opt out.

What our site is for

Our site is for personal, educational and everyday use: learning braille, checking how a word is written, making practice sheets, or reading a note someone wrote in braille.

We don’t offer transcription, and no transcriber has checked what our tools produce. Don’t rely on them alone for anything published or sold, exams and assessments, legal documents, signage, or medicine and product labels. Those need a qualified transcriber and a proofreader.

We handle English in Unified English Braille (UEB) only. Nemeth Code, music braille, technical notation such as mathematics and computer code, and braille for other languages are out of scope.

Our decoder translates its answer back into braille and compares the two. A match means the braille and the decoded text agree with each other. It doesn’t prove that either one is correct.

Mistakes in the braille

Our braille comes from software, and it can be wrong. Every translation comes from liblouis 3.39.0 with its tables unmodified, and we don’t correct or rewrite what the engine returns. So if the engine or its tables get something wrong, your braille will be wrong too.

Our accuracy page lists the limits we know about. If a translation looks wrong, our contact page says how to report it. We fix what we can.

Using our content

The explanations on our reference and learning pages, and the way we’ve written and arranged our pages, are © UEB Translator. You may read them, print them and share links to them for personal and educational use, like teaching a class or studying on your own. You may quote short passages if you link back to the page.

Please don’t copy whole pages to another website, sell them, or publish them as your own. The licences below give you wider rights for the parts they cover. Where they do, the licence applies instead of this section.

Licences

Each part of our site keeps its own licence, and nothing in these terms narrows any of them.

• liblouis and its braille tables are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later. Nothing in these terms limits the rights that licence gives you. Our credits page links the licence text and the source code.
• Our own code is released under the MIT License.
• Our braille cell drawings are available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). When you use them, credit them as: Braille cell drawing: UEB Translator (uebtranslator.com), CC BY 4.0
• The Atkinson Hyperlegible and Bricolage Grotesque fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, version 1.1.

Independence

We aren’t affiliated with or endorsed by 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. We name them only to say what we use or refer to.

Acceptable use

Use our site in ways that don’t harm it or mislead anyone. Don’t try to disrupt it or overload it with automated requests. Don’t present braille made here as certified, or as checked by a transcriber, unless a qualified transcriber has checked it.

Linking to us

You’re welcome to link to any of our pages from a website, a course page, a post or a document. You don’t need to ask. Please describe our site fairly, and don’t suggest that we endorse you or work with you unless we do.

Framing our pages

Don’t show our pages inside a frame on another website, or present them in any way that makes them look like part of your site or your own work. Link to them instead. We send every page with the header X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN. As MDN's X-Frame-Options reference explains, that header tells browsers to show a page in a frame only when the frame belongs to the same site.

Other websites and advertising

The other websites we link to aren’t ours. We’re not responsible for what they publish or how they handle your data.

We don’t show ads today. If we add advertising, the ads will sit below the tools, and we’ll update the privacy page before the first ad. An ad network chooses the ads, and showing one doesn’t mean we recommend it.

No warranty

We provide our site “as is” and “as available”. We don’t promise that it’s free of errors, fit for a particular purpose or always available. As far as the law allows, we give no warranties of any kind, express or implied. Our disclaimer explains what the braille on our site is and isn’t.

Limits on liability

As far as the law allows, we aren’t liable for any loss or damage that comes from using our site or from relying on its braille, including loss caused by a translation error.

Nothing in these terms limits a liability that the law doesn’t let us limit. Nothing in them affects your rights as a consumer under the law where you live.

Rights we keep

We keep every right that these terms and the licences above don’t give you. We may ask you to remove a link, a frame or a copy that breaks these terms, and we expect you to do so promptly.

Changes to these terms

When we change these terms, we change the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. The new terms apply from that date. If you keep using our site after a change, you accept the new terms.

Contact

If you have a question about these terms, write to us at support@uebtranslator.com. Our contact page covers translation reports and accessibility barriers.