[nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

[Herrin, Amber]

Hello Brandon,

I'm late to this topic, so it may be irrelevant, and if you have found
something that works, please do share with us, as someone else may
need the same answer someday.

Anyway, the thing that keeps popping into my head is to place some
kind of bump dot or tactile dot-it wouldn't matter what kind you used,
as long as you were able to tell what meant what-in the margin of the
page.  So for example, to stick the dot to the page, you would put it
just before the line where you would need to do the unexpected action.
 One shape of dot or size would mean one thing, and another would mean
something else.

The reason I suggest this is that once they are stuck to a page, they
shouldn't just fall off, and while they might add some thickness to
the sheets you're using, they wouldn't necessarily be pressing on
specific braille dots, changing the meaning of what you were reading.

HTH,

Amber

On 12/10/12, Patrick Molloy <ptrck.molloy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Sincerely,

Amber R. Herrin

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