I love that the braille just cuts off too:
“HOT SURFACE DO NOT”
As if to say: if you made it this far then you already know.
It says “hot surface do not touch” in full, actually. Braille uses single characters to represent some common letter combinations (“touch” is “t” + “ou” + “ch”). The words “do” and “not” are each contracted to a single letter (“d” and “n” respectively).
Aaahh OK. I thought I was so clever to just count the characters lol. Classic Dunning-Kruger
Well, you can learn actual basic braille in like 15 minutes. The only important thing missing in it is ⠼ that denotes that following symbol is a a number. E.g. ⠁⠃⠉ is “abc” but ⠼⠁⠃⠉ is 123.
A neat trick is that it translates mostly phonetically across languages so, when traveling, you can get some idea and even practice a bit of reading of the local script by reading braille signs in elevators and buses. It is surprisingly difficult to find photos of those signs on the internet, even though they are literally everywhere, but, for example, this sign reads as KNOPKA V?ZOVA PERSONALA in braille, so you can infer that “КНОПКА” reads as “knopka” and not “khonka”, or that З thing is not a number but actually a letter for Z. The only uncommon letter here is Ы, but it is notoriously difficult one, and you can skip it in most words and people will still understand you. It might be even more helpful with wildly different script like hebrew, but I haven’t tried that myself yet.
For awhile in college, Pokemon endgame content gave me the ability to read braille…
… By looking at it.
Worst superpower ever.
I did this when I listened to Japanese songs before I knew how that writing system worked. I was always extremely confused.
This guy grade 2’s
At first I wondered what the secret message would be to braille users, then I realised they wouldn’t know either.
Can screen readers read braille?
Interesting question, I was really talking about the message in the image, but I don’t know about the title.
I knew someone who had a braille laptop once, so instead of a screen it had a tactile braille row in front of the keyboard. I assume if you gave it braille characters it could give them to the user, but I actually have no idea.
it’s the same braille as on the sign
I don’t think the braille is necessary. By the time someone starts to “read” it, they already know what it says.
Got blinded by reading a sign that told me to look away, got my fingertips melted by reading a sign that told me not to touch.
Went to an Ace of Base concert but stood too close to the speakers, and well… You can guess.
Edit: Ooh, or if you wanna lean into the “ironic warnings” part more than the “damaging signs” part, the concert could be The Police.
WHAT?
Went to an Ace of Base concert but stood too close to the speakers, and well… You can guess.
Erm… the loud thunderous beat of “All That She Wants” made you asexual?
Funniest thing I’ve seen today.
