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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 (in italic style)
To change the column balance, |flex1= and/or |flex2= can be set. The default is 1. For example: |flex1=3 |flex2=2 will result in the first column taking up to 60% (3/5) of the available width, and the second column taking up at least 40% (2/5) of the width. Note that the actual column balance will vary depending on screen size, since the ...
Using the CSS display property, the container can be defined as either flex or inline-flex. Flex item Any direct child element held within the flex container is considered a flex item. Any text within the container element is wrapped in an unknown flex item. Axes Each flex box contains two axes: the main and cross axes.
New York Point (New York Point: ) is a braille-like system of tactile writing for the blind invented by William Bell Wait (1839–1916), a teacher in the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind. The system used one to four pairs of points set side by side, each containing one or two dots.
HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name.
The first books embossed at the American Printing House for the Blind in 1866 were in Boston line letter. By 1868, N.B. Kneass, Jr., a printer in Philadelphia, had adapted what became known as a "combined system" which used the lower case forms of Boston line letter and capital letters from a rival tactile system known as Philadelphia Line. [2]
Letter Garden. Spell words by linking letters, clearing space for your flowers to grow. Can you clear the entire garden? By Masque Publishing
Lucas Type, a British tactile alphabet system introduced by Thomas Lucas in 1838 and used to teach blind people, especially children, to read Around 1830–1832, Lucas developed his so-called Lucas system (or Lucas type), a form of embossed text or tactile alphabet system using a sort of "stenographic shorthand" with arbitrarily chosen symbols ...