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Braille (; French: [bʁaj]) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired. It is traditionally written with embossed paper. Braille users can read computer screens and other electronic supports using refreshable braille displays. They can write braille with the original slate and stylus or type it on a braille writer, such as a portable braille notetaker or computer that prints with a braille embosser. Braille is named after its creator, Louis Braille, a Frenchman who lost his sight as a result of a childhood accident. In 1824, at the age of fifteen, he developed a code for the French alphabet as an improvement on night writing. He published his system, which subsequently included musical notation, in 1829. The second revision, published in 1837, was the first small binary form of writing developed in the modern era. These characters have rectangular blocks called cells that have tiny bumps called raised dots. The number and arrangement of these dots distinguish one character from another. Since the various braille alphabets originated as transcription codes for printed writing, the mappings (sets of character designations) vary from language to language, and even within one; in English Braille there are three levels of encoding: Grade 1 – a letter-by-letter transcription used for basic literacy; Grade 2 – an addition of abbreviations and contractions; and Grade 3 – various non-standardized personal stenography. Braille cells are not the only thing to appear in braille text. There may be embossed illustrations and graphs, with the lines either solid or made of series of dots, arrows, bullets that are larger than braille dots, etc. A full braille cell includes six raised dots arranged in two columns, each column having three dots. The dot positions are identified by numbers from one to six. There are 64 possible solutions using zero or more dots. A cell can be used to represent a letter, number, punctuation mark, or even a word.In the face of screen reader software, braille usage has declined. However, because it teaches spelling and punctuation, braille education remains important for developing reading skills among blind and visually impaired children, and braille literacy correlates with higher employment rates.
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Song | Album | Duration |
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10 Years | Shades of Grey 2004 | 4:00 |
10 Years | Shades of Grey [1 Bonus Track] 2004 | |
Alive | Unknown Album | |
Amigo Bronco | Unknown Album | 3:47 |
Don't Wanna Let Go | Discolights 2009 | 2:41 |
Find | Shades of Grey [1 Bonus Track] 2004 | |
Flex (feat. A.I. The Anomaly) | Unknown Album | 3:33 |
Goliath | Shades of Grey 2004 | 3:35 |
Goliath | Shades of Grey [1 Bonus Track] 2004 | |
Hiphop Music | Shades of Grey 2004 | 4:06 |
Hiphop Music | Shades of Grey [1 Bonus Track] 2004 | |
Let Go | Shades of Grey 2004 | 4:33 |
Let Go | Shades of Grey [1 Bonus Track] 2004 | |
Microphone Rush | Shades of Grey 2004 | 3:21 |
Microphone Rush | Shades of Grey [1 Bonus Track] 2004 | |
My Parent's Basement | Unknown Album | |
No Phone Calls | Unknown Album | 3:01 |
Restin' | Unknown Album | 4:18 |
Safe Retreat | Unknown Album | |
Shades of Grey | Shades of Grey 2004 | 4:37 |
Shades of Grey | Shades of Grey [1 Bonus Track] 2004 | |
Soul Rock | Shades of Grey 2004 | 3:45 |
Soul Rock | Shades of Grey [1 Bonus Track] 2004 | |
The Find | Shades of Grey 2004 | 2:44 |
Yet Always Rejoicing (feat. Lynnea) | Unknown Album | 3:40 |
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