Braille Translation

Cut-and-Paste

Making Braille Signs, Notes, etc

You can use this translation tool to print out the Braille for signs, notes, and so on.

Either print out this page, or press "Save Image" to create a ".gif" of the Braille dots for later printing.

After printing, you can put drops of paint or glue on each black dot, or you could punch little holes (from the reverse side), so that the pattern is easy to feel.

Grade 1

Grade 1 Braille is simple letter-by-letter translation. There should be no confusion using this method.

Grade 2

Official Grade 2 Braille has 189 contractions (combinations of letters or entire words can become one Braille character), with many complicated rules.

This tool uses all the contractions, but cannot follow all the rules because that requires a deeper understanding that only a human has. For example, the combination "wh" can be replaced by one character, except when the word is really two words combined. So a(wh)ile is OK, but ra(wh)ide is not. Our tool will get that wrong ...

... so Grade 2 translation can only be done properly by a human!

However, 98% of the time our translation will be good.