[nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

[Patrick Molloy]

In my experience, puff paint isn't always the best. First, it can take
a long time to dry, as others have said. Second, if you were to put it
in a book and then close the book, the paint would dry and stick your
pages together.
Patrick

On 12/10/12, Heather Field <missheather at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm not sure about this, but I believe that the kit mostly has tools which
> press from the opposite side of the page on which you want a mark, as with a
>
> stylus or a tracing wheel.. However, I do think APH sells some tactile
> stickers. Perhaps you could buy them and cut them into smaller shapes to
> highlight your music. They're very helpful so perhaps you could call them
> and ask someone to describe what stickers they have available, and also ask
>
> if they have any suggestions. I think the graphics kit is over $150 so it
> probably a lot more than you can use. I'm sure they'll be able to tell you
> that as well.
>
> I hope we can find the solution, this is very important.
> Warmly,
> Heather
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Misty Dawn Bradley
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 10:17 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?
>
> 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"
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> 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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