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About this tool
Learn Braille alphabet (A–Z), numbers (0–9), and common punctuation with interactive cards, quizzes, and progress tracking
This Braille learning tool teaches the six-dot cell — a 3 × 2 grid where each character is a pattern of raised dots — across 49 characters: the 26 letters A–Z, the digits 0–9 and 13 punctuation marks. Four modes cover it: Learn shows every cell with a plain-English dot description, Quiz shows a pattern and asks for the character, Practice reverses that, and Reference is a full sortable chart. Per-character accuracy is tracked in your browser, and a character is marked mastered once you are at least 80% correct on it over five or more attempts.
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Start on the Learn tab, which opens by default, and work through the Alphabet (A–Z), Numbers (0–9) and Punctuation & Symbols cards — each shows the six-dot pattern, the character and a description of which dots are raised.
Switch to Quiz to name the character behind a pattern, or Practice to pick the pattern for a character. Choose All, Letters, Numbers or Punctuation, press Start Quiz or Start Practice, then use Next Question to move on.
Watch the Progress Overview panel for your Correct, Incorrect, Streak and Mastered counts — a character turns Mastered after at least five attempts at 80% correct — and switch on High Contrast or Large Text whenever you need them.
Quiz mode goes pattern to character and Practice mode goes character to pattern, which are separate skills — recognising a cell is easier than recalling one.
Each character carries its own correct-versus-total record, so the progress grid shows exactly which letters are still shaky rather than a single average score.
A high-contrast palette and a large-text mode enlarge both the dot diagrams and the interface, and every cell carries a text label for screen readers.
Six, arranged in two columns of three and numbered 1–3 down the left column and 4–6 down the right. Every letter, digit and punctuation mark in this tool is one of the 63 possible raised-dot combinations of that grid.
With a numeric indicator — dots 3, 4, 5 and 6 — placed before the digit, after which the letters A through J stand for 1 through 9 and 0. So the cell for A means the letter a on its own, but the digit 1 when it follows the numeric indicator.
Once you have answered it at least five times with 80% or better accuracy. Characters with fewer than three attempts show as new, and anything in between counts as learning, so the grid separates untested characters from ones you are genuinely getting wrong.
No — it covers uncontracted Grade 1 only: one cell per letter, digit or punctuation mark. Grade 2, which most published Braille uses, adds a large set of contractions and shortforms where one cell can stand for a whole word or letter group, and is a separate stage of learning best taken up with a qualified instructor or a certified course.