Braille Tutor

This program was written as a tool for sighted people (including myself) to learn and identify braille visually, through a flash card interface.
The program is written in PHP & MySQL with all source code and database information available freely for download, use and reuse. The graphics are not actually images, but dynamic tables with background colors, but dots could also be used instead.

Braille is a dying language. In 1960, 50% of legally blind, school-age children were able to read Braille in the U.S. According to the 2007 Annual Report from the American Printing House for the Blind, there are approximately 57,696 legally blind children in the U.S. Out of those school-age children, only 10% use Braille as their primary reading medium. I took it upon myself to learn the basic grade 1 alphabet and a few conjunctions to help myself recognize Braille in my daily life. Also, after watching, “The Book of Eli“, I figured I could do my part to save a little bit of humanity.

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