[nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

[Misty Dawn Bradley]

Hi,
I believe that American Printing House for the Blind also carries a tactile 
kit that makes different symbols and textures and has different tools for 
making tactile markings and diagrams, although I don't know how expensive it 
is. It might work though, because you could have different symbols for 
different things.
Hope this helps,
Misty

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heather Field" <missheather at comcast.net>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
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Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 7:46 PM
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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