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I once suggested a similar project at our company. One of our products is labelled in braille. For technical reasons it was the easiest way to drill holes in the front plate and stick a transparent plastic insert through from the back.

My suggestion was to add a few blue LEDs behind it to light up those braille dots. It would have been meaningless for the intended user - but it would have looked way cool!

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I often think of this sign I saw at a small children’s playground with braille on it hung 6 feet in the air with no way to reach it.

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I think of the sign that says “hot surface do not touch” with accompanying braille.

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Yep. That one was made by a guy who made all kinds of warning plates for their plant, and legal & corporate requirements were that every sign has to have braille on it. I don’t think the department requesting that sign from their sign-making-department had this on their screens…

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There’s also no way for someone who needs Braille to actually DO the “puzzle”. The other words don’t have Braille, the map appears to be flat. Terrible design.

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Nah the black parts of the sign are recessed. You can see from the lighting.

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Surely they could have made that a little more challenging than having a straight line?

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2 points

Maybe the builder just mounted the panel the wrong way? It serves as a wall for the platform behind it.

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4 points

There’s a different printing on the other side too.

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I’d like to think of that as supplementary design.

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