Unified English Braille

This deck is set up as 6-key transcription training for sighted users. A basic understanding of the UEB system is assumed. Please read everything on this page before starting. Please post general feedback and questions about the deck on the GitHub issues page. Note data is on Google Sheets. Comments are open, and that is the best place to post feedback about particular cards. Do let me know if you find any mistakes. (This is a Spreadsheet Import Plus deck, so the spreadsheet can be used for future updates.) Installing a simulated braille font is required. The deck requests ghUBraille available from SeeWriteHear, or SimBraille from Duxbury (which looks a little nicer but availability is unclear). If you prefer a different font, you can edit the card CSS. The production cards will only work on desktop. To use the recognition cards on mobile, it will be necessary to embed the font, as in the Anki manual. When the front of a production card is active, the text input box is scripted so the keyboard behaves differently from usual. The default keys were chosen for a UK or US keyboard layout. FDSJKL are used for dot input (chorded with Perkins arrangement), the space bar adds a space as usual, the A key flips the card (in addition to Enter), and semicolon or H acts as backspace (in addition to the real backspace key). With other keyboard layouts, it would likely be necessary to edit the keys in the template. Remapping the answer-rating keys with an add-on could be useful to avoid having to reach for the "1" key between entering dots. Even if the add-on is set to allow answering from the question side, this will not happen because Anki gives focus to the text input box. The space bar can still be used most of the time to give the default answer rating. See the notes below for tested add-ons. Pressing all these keys at the right times is not easy at first, but starts to feel natural after some practice. Reviewing the production cards separately from other cards is recommended, to avoid having to mentally shift between different key bindings after every review. Recognition and production cards are provided in separate subdecks for this reason. Note that the provided card order is important, as later cards build on earlier ones. Learning the cards in random order would be extremely difficult. The deck has a "Sequence" field which can be used to restore the order if it is lost. At present, this deck covers mainly words, with some punctuation and other symbols. There are a few more things I would like to include, but which need further thought regarding the question design. Some items were included because they make other items easier to remember, not because of their own importance. And some of the suggested mnemonics use arbitrary names for the building blocks, selected because they make for good stories rather than any underlying meaning. Thanks to Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" for both of these ideas. License: note contents CC BY-SA 4.0; Javascript mostly MIT. Tested: 2020-05-19, Anki 2.1.26 on Windows 10 and Fedora 30, with right hand reviews hjkl / Right Hand Reviews (jkl;).