[nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

Mon Dec 10 02:02:17 UTC 2012

Hello,
Not changing the subject line is considered "Hijacking" on many message 
boards and is grounds for getting band.
Facebook.
Thank you,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message----- 
From: Sarah
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 5:56 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

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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