This is a fun side project. What I'm curious to know is: has any blind person actually tried any of Alexander Fakoó's scripts?<p>The reason I'm curious is that there's something funny that happens when sighted people create tactile technologies for the blind: they often don't consult with blind people at all. There's something appealing about the idea of theoretically assistive technology that leads to very impractical systems like Boston Line Type [1] or "braille displays" that have only one single character, that's 10x the normal size. It's easy to assume that if you can technically feel something then that's sufficient for blind people, but the history of blind writing systems shows us that's not enough.<p>This particular idea seems more promising than other efforts (e.g. Moon), because bumps seem to be easier to feel than shaped figures. It can also be written using a regular slate and stylus. However, modern Braille [2] is full of contractions to reduce the number of characters, and even then braille books are massive and heavy compared to their print counterparts. Doubling the width of individual letters and forgoing contractions really limits the utility to very small snippets of text, and learning an entirely new alphabet just for that doesn't seem very practical.<p>The author's website [3] is full of promises that "anyone" can read the writing system, but it also says "Developer is Alexander Fakoó, who has learned to read the Braille Writing optically". That's great, but sight-reading Braille is a whole different medium from tactile reading. Personally, I used to be able to read grade 1 braille by sight, but could never read by touch.<p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_line_letter" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_line_letter</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Braille" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Braille</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://fakoo.de/en/fakoo.html" rel="nofollow">https://fakoo.de/en/fakoo.html</a>