Braille Contraction Lookup

Jeff Bishop

About this app

- Scroll through the list to browse all contractions
- Enter a word in the search bar to find its contracted form
- Use the four Braille cells to enter a contraction and find its meaning
- As you type, the list automatically updates with search results

Reading and writing contracted Braille is faster when you can look up unfamiliar contractions as you go. This is particularly useful for teachers who do a lot of interlining, or those who produce and grade assignments in Braille.

Ratings and reviews

It is missing a lot of contractions, so much so that it is not useful for a learner. It doesn't have the contraction for 'forward' for example. A learner who comes across a cluster of three constanants and the symbol for 'ar' under their fingers for the first time and asks a sighted companion to check it on the app will be frustrated. You're far better getting a copy from code from RNIB or Hadley. This is a good idea for a sighted person, but is very incomplete. Shame, it could be great.

As a volunteer teacher in braille this app is verry usefull for me, this ap0 reduced the time consumed in whriting reading materials for the student.. I suggest to make another set of contractions grouping them according to complexity and sort by levels of of difficulty in reading and writting to further help the teachers when to introduce a spesific contraction.

*ea* contractions issue. When I put in words like "ocean", which have a dot 2 contraction when in the middle of the word, no suggestions are made.

What's new

- App now targets Android 13.
- Made adjustments to font size, search functionality, and the Info page.
- Now available for iOS! Search for this app on the App Store.