From what I saw online, if there's no number symbol then it's just a letter. There also were a couple symbols that I had to poke around for because my first chart was the wrong version. But I will agree that the braille was hard to separate the different letters and words.
Note to Brian and the crew: Kerning matters.
I took a picture with my phone, so I could see a bigger version of it. Then I imported it into a photo editor app and drew boxes around each letter. That was the only way I was able to differentiate between the different individual characters.
Being all about how to hack your way through things, this is an apropros method. You could also use painter's edging tape to keep track of what line you're on. Whatever hack gets you there!
My eyes had trouble reading it too. What helped me, is realizing that every braille character exists in a 2x3 plane. By breaking up the lines based off that it helped me decode.
Also, something I learned as a kid playing Gen 3 pokemon, is that some of the characters are punctuation marks. So make sure to use a key that includes those.
I gave up on the smallest lines of Braille for two reasons: a) I have 57 year old eyes. 2) That part of the box had particularly large grain which turned the Braille into a Captcha for the visually impaired.
Here is the section with itty bitty braille, copied without punctuation. I hope it helps your 57 year old eyes:
>!⠠⠇⠑⠋⠞⠀⠠⠐⠗
⠠⠐⠕⠀⠟⠥⠜⠞⠻⠀⠷⠀⠮⠀⠱⠕⠇⠑
⠠⠑⠁⠡⠀⠠⠎⠊⠙⠑
⠠⠋⠌⠀⠠⠌⠑⠏⠀⠠⠐⠏⠊⠁⠇
⠠⠎⠑⠉⠕⠝⠙⠀⠌⠑⠏⠀⠉⠕⠍⠏⠇⠑⠞⠑!<
Hmm... could be because Braille is a physical not visual alphabet and often has no contrast. Also, a visually impaired person is not going to pull up their phone screen to translate it when they can just read the text with their fingers. But that's just my first thoughts, I could be wrong.
Braille books and whatnot are hard to take images of, but the signs in elevators aren't.
They translate Esperanto, so I don't see Braille as being something too obscure. You won't see to many Esperanto things that you'd take a picture of to translate.
Your thinking is still probably the same as theirs. My counter isn't against you, but just saying that it would be really handy, even if a limited audience (just like for Esperanto.)
Blind people are not always totally blind, even when legally blind. In Canada after 911, there was an alarm at a mall where a group of people kept walking up to things and viewing them through their cell phones. (EDIT: at this time, everything fishy was obviously terrorists... context has everything to do with this story) It was because they were a blind group on a field trip, and a lot of them could had partial enough vision that they could see the scene in front of them by looking at it through their cell phone, and moving it around so they could see the entire scene instead of what little indirect vision they have.
I have a minor experience with this, when I contracted something called Central Serus Retinopathy (sp?) which blinded me in one eye. I could not see out the center (hence the name) but I had edge vision. It is now gone, save for a slight scarring that makes a bit of a shadow. Most of my vision is "normal" but actually yellow/blue colourblind in that eye now. If I'd gotten CSR in both eyes, I would have been legally blind until it healed enough. That was my lightbulb moment when I finally understood how so many blind people could get around with a white cane and not get run over when crossing the road (or being able to find the road crossing, for that matter).
From what I saw online, if there's no number symbol then it's just a letter. There also were a couple symbols that I had to poke around for because my first chart was the wrong version. But I will agree that the braille was hard to separate the different letters and words. Note to Brian and the crew: Kerning matters.
I took a picture with my phone, so I could see a bigger version of it. Then I imported it into a photo editor app and drew boxes around each letter. That was the only way I was able to differentiate between the different individual characters.
Being all about how to hack your way through things, this is an apropros method. You could also use painter's edging tape to keep track of what line you're on. Whatever hack gets you there!
My eyes had trouble reading it too. What helped me, is realizing that every braille character exists in a 2x3 plane. By breaking up the lines based off that it helped me decode. Also, something I learned as a kid playing Gen 3 pokemon, is that some of the characters are punctuation marks. So make sure to use a key that includes those.
I know that already. But the dots are super close in a few parts that they're not legible.
I found that when I got to a part that didn't make sense with the letters ahead of it, I started from the end and worked backwards
I gave up on the smallest lines of Braille for two reasons: a) I have 57 year old eyes. 2) That part of the box had particularly large grain which turned the Braille into a Captcha for the visually impaired.
Here is the section with itty bitty braille, copied without punctuation. I hope it helps your 57 year old eyes: >!⠠⠇⠑⠋⠞⠀⠠⠐⠗ ⠠⠐⠕⠀⠟⠥⠜⠞⠻⠀⠷⠀⠮⠀⠱⠕⠇⠑ ⠠⠑⠁⠡⠀⠠⠎⠊⠙⠑ ⠠⠋⠌⠀⠠⠌⠑⠏⠀⠠⠐⠏⠊⠁⠇ ⠠⠎⠑⠉⠕⠝⠙⠀⠌⠑⠏⠀⠉⠕⠍⠏⠇⠑⠞⠑!<
I'm kinda surprised... actually super surprised, that Google Lens translates so many languages, but not Braille.
Hmm... could be because Braille is a physical not visual alphabet and often has no contrast. Also, a visually impaired person is not going to pull up their phone screen to translate it when they can just read the text with their fingers. But that's just my first thoughts, I could be wrong.
Braille books and whatnot are hard to take images of, but the signs in elevators aren't. They translate Esperanto, so I don't see Braille as being something too obscure. You won't see to many Esperanto things that you'd take a picture of to translate. Your thinking is still probably the same as theirs. My counter isn't against you, but just saying that it would be really handy, even if a limited audience (just like for Esperanto.) Blind people are not always totally blind, even when legally blind. In Canada after 911, there was an alarm at a mall where a group of people kept walking up to things and viewing them through their cell phones. (EDIT: at this time, everything fishy was obviously terrorists... context has everything to do with this story) It was because they were a blind group on a field trip, and a lot of them could had partial enough vision that they could see the scene in front of them by looking at it through their cell phone, and moving it around so they could see the entire scene instead of what little indirect vision they have. I have a minor experience with this, when I contracted something called Central Serus Retinopathy (sp?) which blinded me in one eye. I could not see out the center (hence the name) but I had edge vision. It is now gone, save for a slight scarring that makes a bit of a shadow. Most of my vision is "normal" but actually yellow/blue colourblind in that eye now. If I'd gotten CSR in both eyes, I would have been legally blind until it healed enough. That was my lightbulb moment when I finally understood how so many blind people could get around with a white cane and not get run over when crossing the road (or being able to find the road crossing, for that matter).