"Translating" Braille?

[iamback]

Hi all,

Maybe this is a bit off-topic, but I can't think of many on-topic places to ask...

To make a long story short, I have made scans of a few objects that have ordinary type on them (in English) as well as Braille printed with "raised" ink (I don't know the proper term for that?). I want to put the scans on the web as illustrations for a story (still to be written) and I'd like to provide a "translation" of the Braille in these images, as a caption or longdesc for the images.

Now I know very little about Braille - what I do know is that there are different writing systems depending on language used; for instance systems equivalent to "latin" characters and different systems for languages that use a syllabic script, such as Tibetan or Japanese. But even for English I don't know the letter equivalent of each of the braille letters, even though I can deduce a few from the few words I have here.

I also think that in some cases words may be abbreviated. For instance, my images are of things from an organisation whose name starts with "Braille" (but the subtext here actualy shows a web address); the first equivalent (I think) word in Braille though seems to be "brl" which I suspect may be shorthand for "Braille".

So, for starters: does anyone know where to find (say) a "latin" Braille font - or a web page showing the characters and their equivalents? One of the Braille texts (just a few words) may not even be English, but given letter equivalents I may be able to deduce what it is if not English.

Anyone?

I can post the images, if that helps.