[nabs-l] Sites like the zonebbs
Sarah
coastergirl92 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 21:19:32 UTC 2012
Hello, I'm just wondering if you know of any sites like the
zonebbs that work with the BrailleNote. They kep disabling my
accounts on the zone.
Thanks in advance,
Sarah and Wizard
----- Original Message -----
From: Sophie Trist <sweetpeareader at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing
list<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:16:55 -0600
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Braille Highlighters?
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
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
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
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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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