Who each scheme is for
- Braille Visual Decoder — sighted teachers, parents and classmates learning to read and write the code. Alphabet, numbers, punctuation, indicators, then contractions and shortforms in 18 levels.
- Braille Tactile Literacy — young blind children: phonics-first letters, CVC words, digraphs. Falling Words is hidden for this scheme.
- Braille Code Conversion — literate adults losing their sight: anchor letters, word copying, the logic of strong contractions.
- RNIB Dot-to-Dot, Hands On, Take Off, Fingerprint — the vocabulary of the RNIB workbooks, generated from the workbook BRF files by
build-curriculum.mjs. Each level is a page (or a few short pages) of one book, holding the words that page introduces for the first time, in the book's own order; the Level list is grouped by book. Book titles, running headers and page numbers are left out, and on drill pages the sign is kept while its spelled-out label is not. The words keep the workbook's own graded spelling; the prompt says "(contracted)" when a contracted form is wanted, and a capital letter in the prompt means a capital sign is wanted. Check your organisation's licence for these materials.
- Contractions and Transcription Passages — short practice sets.
Activities
- Flashcards — the item is shown and spoken; the learner brailles it. Every item in the level comes up before any repeats; a missed item comes back a few turns later. After two misses the answer is shown and spoken with its dot numbers.
- Listen & Type — the item is only spoken. This always speaks, even with the voice off, and R repeats it.
- Transcription — the print is shown; each cell is judged as it is typed and the braille line builds up on screen. After three wrong tries on one cell, that cell is given.
- Missing Dot — one dot is missing from a single cell; the learner presses it. Only single-cell signs with two or more dots suit it; the card shows how many items in the level qualify.
- Simon Says — a sequence of spoken items, one longer each round.
- Falling Words — braille a word and press Space before it reaches the line.
Every card shows how many of the level's items the activity can use. Progress ("4 of 10 seen") is shown under the prompt
Voice and screen readers
In Self-voicing mode the app speaks. In Screen reader mode it stays silent and sends the same text to your screen reader, so nothing is spoken twice. Typed cells are echoed by name — letters, digits after a number sign, the contractions and punctuation the schemes teach — and otherwise by dot numbers; switch the echo off in Settings if it gets in the way. When an activity starts, keyboard focus moves into the activity so that a screen reader passes S D F J K L to the app rather than using them as navigation keys
Editing a level
Settings → Edit this level. Each row has the print, the braille and an optional spoken form. Tick "Use six-key entry" to braille straight into the braille fields. Edits are saved for that level only, in this browser; Restore puts the scheme back; Export downloads the whole scheme with your edits
Settings that persist
Scheme, level (per scheme), voice mode, echo, voice, look and the timer are remembered on this device
