New York Point is a braille-like system of tactile writing for the blind invented by William Bell Wait, a teacher in the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind. The system used one to four
English Braille, also known as Grade 2 Braille, is the braille alphabet used for English. It consists of around 250 letters, numerals, punctuation, formatting marks, contractions, and abbreviations. S
New York Point
…braille; the principle of writing the most common letters with the fewest dots was likewise an advantage of New York Point and American Braille over English Braille. Wait advocated the New York System as more logical than either the American Braille or the English Braille alphabets, and the three scripts competed…