[nabs-l] Sites like the zonebbs
Desiree Oudinot
turtlepower17 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 00:09:32 UTC 2012
Might I also add that usually, when you get kicked off the zone, it's
not done for no reason? You might want to consider it a lost cause.
But, to answer your main question, I don't know of any other sites
like it. There's Klango, but that's going to be shut down in a month
or so, so I wouldn't bother. The suggestion to join other mailing
lists is a good one, though. Try going to www.whitestick.co.uk and
browsing the mailing lists for the blind section. there are some good
ones, and not all of them are UK-based, although the ones that are
still allow members that aren't in the UK to subscribe.
On 12/10/12, Herrin, Amber <herrinar at muohio.edu> wrote:
> Sarah,
>
> I do not mean to be rude, but I would like to suggest that if you have
> not heard from anyone thus far, you probably will not hear from anyone
> about this particular topic. You have sent several messages asking
> the same exact question over a very short period of time. If you
> continue to do this, I am thinking you might get taken off the list or
> reprimanded for posting so much about the same topic. I personally do
> not have the answer to your question, as I do not spend the majority
> of my time talking on sites like that. If someone wishes to answer
> the question, though, they will know you have asked the question
> several times and will do so.
>
> I apologize if you think this message has been rude, but trust me when
> I say I have worded this much nicer than some others would have.
>
> Why don't you try doing google searches or join some yahoo or google
> chat lists dedicated to a particular topic of interest or hobby that
> you enjoy?
>
> Best,
>
> Amber
>
> On 12/10/12, Sarah <coastergirl92 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>> 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
>
> e: herrinar at muohio.edu
> P: (513) 593-5855
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