[nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

[Sarah]

Hello everyone,

I'll ask this again since I forgot to change the subject line.  
Does anyone know of any good sites like zonebbs.com that have 
message boards and stuff that work on the BrailleNote? I got 
baned from the zone in 2010 and they won't let me come back.

Thanks in advance,

Sarah and Wizard

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brandon Keith Biggs" <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 17:02:09 -0800
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

Hello,
what comes to mind are the whiteout rollers or pens, but I'm not 
sure if
those would change the texture fast.
I am afraid that Wikki sticks would fall off as I am transporting 
my music
all over the bay area constantly in many different modes of 
transportation.
Perhaps some markers that use a kind of paint or really thick ink 
as well.  I
believe I saw some of those once a long time ago, but nothing 
since.
I'm not sure what would happen if I went into an office supply 
store and
asked for markers and other light substances that change the 
texture of the
paper.
It would work putting graphing tape on the page if there was a 
pen or spool
that cut the tape fast.  I wonder if there is a tape as thin as 
saran wrap.  I
could put over Braille words instead?
I guess if anyone randomly uncovers something like this, let me 
know!
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message-----
From: Heather Field
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 4:46 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

Hello Brandon,
There isn't any actual "tool", to my knowledge, that will do what 
you want.
However, I can fully appreciate the need for what you've 
described.  I have a
couple of suggestions for you to try.  Obviously, I make no claim 
to their
success but I'm just trying to think of something that will be 
simple and
fast for you to use on the fly.

My immediate first thought was Wikki sticks.  You could get some 
from any
local store with a craft or toy department.  Then, you could 
experiment with
cutting them into different lengths.  You could buy, in the same 
craft
department, a small, flat box that is divided into compartments 
of different
sizes.  Then, you could separate the different sized pieces of 
Wikki sticks
into their sections.  Perhaps, you could place a very small piece 
vertically
in the space before the phrase that requires a reminded action.  
If there was
a phrase that required an extra loud or soft tone, you could have 
a longer
piece of Wikki stick that ran horizontally under the whole 
phrase; it could
go below for softer and above for louder.  You could work out 
other
positions, sloping diagonally forward or back for example, for 
other
reminders.  This is the quickest, "on the fly" idea I had.

A slightly less elegant, slower, but possibly of equal 
flexibility idea, is
to simply take a stylus with you and poke up dots or lines from 
under the
paper.  You could have a one line dymo tape slate which you 
positioned, holes
down, roughly over the line under which you had positioned the 
stylus.  Thus,
when you poked the stylus up from under the paper to the spot 
where you had
positioned the point to come through, you could stop it from 
making a hole
by putting the slate over it.  A small square of neoprene or 
rubber material
would work just as well.  You could also experiment with using a 
small
tracing wheel, available from the American Printing house, and 
using it
under the paper while you kept your fingers on the braille facing 
up and
made a line under or over the braille you want to mark.

I believe that you could get more than competent with these 
techniques, it
would only take a bit of experimenting and practise on your part.  
I agree
with you that, at this level of performance, you really do need 
to
streamline the process and get a set of tactile marking in place 
that does
an equivalent job for a tactile reader that highlighters do for 
print
readers.
I hope one of these ideas works for you.  Who knows, you might 
find that a
combination of both is your final answer.
Warmly,
Heather field

-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Keith Biggs
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 11:32 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: [nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

Hello,
I am wondering if any kind of Braille highlighter has been 
invented yet?
Something that could change the texture of the page while still 
keeping the
Braille readable?
This has been something that all my teachers have been telling me 
to do with
my Braille books and music, as of now it is either write notes in 
another
device that may crash, or put not really accurate dots that can 
fall off on
the spot I want to mark.  (Not to menschen that becomes a lot of 
dots after a
while).
So if anyone has ever encountered a Braille highlighter please 
let me know!
Thank you,

Brandon Keith Biggs


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