What I was going with is that the thing with being blind and
being deaf is that if prevents you communicating in one way
(say, verbally) but not the other (visually in that case). In
the case of Braille, the idea seems to have been to simply
replace the visual writing with something that was effectively
identical but could be understood by blind people. I had assumed
that the same would have been true for sign language, but I'm
now learning that my assumptions seem to be rather horribly
flawed here. Considering that I'm slightly deaf and have already
narrowly avoided becoming blind once, I wouldn't mind having my
'disablist' views corrected before it's too late... :D Braille
is an alphabet. it's used in French, English, German, etc. And
the systems of braille (a 6 celled form, you "punch" any or all
of the dots) is used in most languages with their own system. ⠿
is the cells all blacked out. a is one dot, ⠗ is a P if i
followed the chart correctly. (wikipedia has the chart and the
unicodes). So you are seeing