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What?

Rich text editor - currently CKEditor5 as the most common across web applications - plugin that provides an ability to write Braille. Key combos are mapped to equivalent Unicode values once the plugin is active via its own widget.

Why?

Early Braille education is crucial to literacy, education, and employment among the visually impaired. Despite the evolution of new technologies, including screen reader tech that reads information aloud, Braille provides access to spelling, punctuation, and other aspects of written language less accessible through audio alone. This app provides a way to learn and practice Braille in the desktop environment where only it is possible to use specific keyboard keys as Braille.

What else?

Provides a framework for exercising Braille typing, in both directions, from text to braille and vice versa, in form of a challenge/exercise. Includes SpeechSynthesis API (Web API) implementation for certain audio helpers.

Target audience

Schools, libraries, other education institutions, NGOs, foundations, local municipalities etc.

To be developed

This small open-source app/plugin is already rounded and functional, up to a certain level (of features). The funding requested is for the next round of development to include more advanced concepts and functionalities, most of which would be AI implementation (the editor has it already) and automated true translations.