On the Subject of Braille
This doesn’t feel right.
See Appendix BLANK in Blind Alley for blank modules identification.
Braille consists of raised dots arranged in a regular grid. Each letter has 2×3 locations, each of which can have a raised dot or not. The following table shows the encoding for Unified English Braille.
a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j
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k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t
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u | v | w | x | y | z | and | for | the | with
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ar | bb | cc | ch | ea | ed | en | er | ff | gg
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gh | in | ing | of | ou | ow | sh | st | th | wh
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- Move your finger over the module to feel the Braille message. The message consists of 4 Braille letters with 6 locations. However, some of the raised dots may be extraneous and some may be missing.
- The locations are numbered in columns from top to bottom, then left to right.
- To find out which locations are wrong, first convert the letters in the serial number to their alphabetic positions (where A=1, …, Z=26).
- Start with the location numbered according to the first character of the serial number plus one.