Tactile alphabet
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Tactile alphabet
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A tactile alphabet is a system for writing material that the blind can read by touch. While currently the Braille system is the most popular and some materials have been prepared in Moon type, historically, many other tactile alphabets have existed: Systems based on embossed Roman letters:
Moon type
Valentin Haüy's system
James Gall's "triangular alphabet", using both capital and lower-case, which was used in 1826 in the first embossed books published in English
Edmund Frye's system
John Alston'
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Alphabet readable by touch
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactile_alphabet
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2023-03-03T16:13:14Z
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