Braille is one of the tangible symbol system, well adapted into the alphabetic environment. It is used by visually impaired persons. So, here are my notes: 1) It is possible to make a transliteration engine from an alphabet to Braille (not vice versa; but good enough for some purposes). 2) Visually impaired people could use different methods for writing: typewriting + acoustic feedback and they are doing that way. There is, of course, possibility to have a keyboard with Braille letters imprinted on them. 3) At this moment of time it could be imagined that touchscreen devices would be able to give tactile feedback. That's the main reason why Wikimedia projects should consider adding Braille as a writing system option for all of the languages that could be supported by Braille (and other tangible symbol systems for non-alphabetic writing systems). That's technical solution and if you are interested doing that, it could be a development project lead by WM CA, for example. (I could give you my input in relation to what's needed for the project to succeed.) In short, it could be implemented like any of the examples of multi-script [Wikimedia] languages. The basics are not complex at all (adding a file into MediaWiki and changing a config file; per language), but the implementation into the Wikimedia environment could be tricky, although I don't think that anyone would object to get a tab on, let's say, English Wikipedia with the options of choosing a writing system -- or having any other kind of more subtle option to choose if somebody is visually impaired or just prefers Braille. Keep in mind, however, that such thing would become realistic after the devices are able to give tactile feedback. And I think Apple Inc. or some other company would "invent" such things during the next couple of years. However, keep in mind that the specialized keyboards for Braille are already interpreting alphabets, so I suppose that even that tactile feedback from the future touchscreens would be likely interpreted into Braille on lower level than MediaWiki interface. However, again, we have keyboards for touchscreens and I suppose it could be implemented into MediaWiki, as well. On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 2:07 PM, Jean-Philippe Béland <jpbeland(a)wikimedia.ca> wrote: