[nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

Mon Dec 10 21:16:55 UTC 2012

Brandon, do you have a slate and stylus? Because if so, you can 
use your stylus as a sort of braille highlighter, putting a dot 
before the thing you want to mark.

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Patrick Molloy <ptrck.molloy at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
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Date sent: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:37:47 -0500
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?

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"
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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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