Advancing Handwritten Braille

Overview

When writing braille by hand, the writer will often use a braille slate. Using a standard braille slate, they write from the back of the page, which creates a unique challenge as the letters need to be written as a mirror image of what they will read. My project innovates a braille slate that could change this. After testing different sizes, shapes and spaces between braille cells, I determined the combination that I applied in my prototype. Although the text it produces is not as clean as that from the standard slate, it shows promise.  My adapted slate would have application in classrooms with children who are learning braille and in daily life for regular braille slate users. I believe that my braille slate, after refinements, can make hand writing and learning braille easier.

Awards (2)

• Bronze Medal
• Selected for CWSF 2026

Competition history

• CWSF 2026 Health & Wellness

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