The standards generally recommend that braille on pharmaceutical packaging is represented in full (grade 1) braille. Meaning that no contractions are used. Contracted (Grade 2) Braille Contracted (grade 2) braille uses a contracted system of shorthand to combine groups of letters into single braille cells. Single braille characters are used to represent common words, such as […]| PharmaBraille
On 24th July the RNIB Centre for Accessible information published the results of a telephone survey of 165 braille readers in the UK. The survey found that the implementation of the European Directive and European Standard for braille on pharmaceutical packaging has had a positive impact for consumers, with significant numbers reporting that since the introduction of the standard| PharmaBraille