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Question
Find out what 'Braille' is.
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Solution
Braille is a system of raised dots that can be read with the fingers by people who are blind or who have very low vision. It is a kind of code language. Each alphabet is arranged by one to six raised dots known as I cell'. A single cell can be used to represent an alphabet letter, number, punctuation mark, even a whole word.
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