{"id":456,"date":"2026-03-06T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seeinghands.org\/?p=456"},"modified":"2026-07-31T01:34:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:34:23","slug":"new-uk-english-8-dot-computer-braille-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seeinghands.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/new-uk-english-8-dot-computer-braille-table\/","title":{"rendered":"New UK English 8-dot computer Braille table"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seeing Hands has implemented the 8-dot computer Braille table for UK English which was first defined by the Braille Authority of the United Kingdom, now part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukaaf.org\/\">UK Association for Accessible formats<\/a>. This Braille table has been added in Liblouis as of version 3.37, which was released earlier this week. This is not a new Braille code, and it may not be the most frequently used one, but it is now available in any software which uses Liblouis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 8-dot computer Braille table is a strict, one cell per character code. It includes all the typical English letters and characters which were in an extended ASCII range, though this table will type these in Unicode by default to save confusion regarding character sets. Unusually for Braille tables, this table also includes control characters, including whitespace, which could be useful for those having to read unusual binary content on a Braille display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing Hands has implemented the 8-dot computer Braille table for UK English which was first defined by the Braille Authority of the United Kingdom, now part of the UK Association for Accessible formats. This Braille [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-braille-tables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeinghands.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeinghands.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeinghands.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghands.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghands.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghands.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghands.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeinghands.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghands.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghands.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}