Informatics study demonstrates deterministic Korean braille encoding for 48,966 chemical safety sheets, highlighting improved data accessibility for visually impaired individuals.
Korean chemical safety information is produced almost entirely as visual regulatory text. This brief report describes KOSHA-Braille, a public Korean Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) braille corpus and encoder release intended to provide a baseline accessibility resource for that domain. We implement a deterministic Korean braille encoder for the 2017 Korean Braille Standards, apply it to the full KOSHA MSDS database accessed through the Korea Public Data Portal, and cross-validate the output against an independently developed open-source Korean braille converter. The corpus, encoder, decoder, evaluation harness, and reference web deployment are released openly. The released artifact covers 48,966 chemicals over a 769,897-row source-section database (401,272 sections with substantive Korean text), totaling approximately 119.3 million Korean characters and 232.3 million braille cells. The encoder agrees with the independent reference at 100% over 442 cross-reference test cases, and the published Korean round-trip golden set is recovered at 45/45. The contribution is the construction, validation, and public release of a standards-compliant accessibility resource, not an end-user reading-performance claim. Reading-comprehension and field-usability studies with visually impaired readers remain necessary follow-up work.
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