[NFB-Braille-Discussion] Slate and Stylus

[kg 6sxy (kg6sxy)]

Hello Dean,

I started learning braille about a year ago and quickly picked up a refreshable braille display in the fall after a few months of various hard copy books from NLS that were in varying states of readability from age, not to mention a bit of confusion from older books that were created before UEB.

Now that I've spent a little over half a year living on a Perkins style keyboard with my Orbit Reader 20 Plus, I figure it is a good idea to get used to a slate and stylus for times when it isn't convenient to use the braille display for a few quick notes while I'm out and about.

I still consider myself young depending on how you look at it, 55 years young biologically but 1296 years old and holding in stress years.

Thank you for the advice!

I'm sure after a while it will be like morse code and become more and more automatic over time.

Take care,  
Tony


> On Jun 8, 2021, at 6:43 PM, Dean Martineau via NFB-Braille-Discussion <nfb-braille-discussion at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Using a slate and stylus is an activity that doesn't accommodate itself to
> hand pain or hand disorders.  You may not find a comfortable stylus.
> 
> There is a mental trick to it.  You don't "flip" braille. That takes too
> much effort and would be slow. Rather, when I hold the stylus, which I
> hardly ever do any more, dots 1 2 and 3 are on the right, and dots 4 5 and 6
> are on the left. That's just where they are. I learned the slate after the
> Perkins, but while still young, so maybe that helps, but I recommend trying
> to carve out that set of synapses.
> 
> Dean
> 
> Thought-provoking reading: http://bahaiteachings.org
> 
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> Subject: [NFB-Braille-Discussion] Slate and Stylus
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just joined this list today and didn't a little looking through the
> archives but didn't see anything in the past few months about slate and
> stylus use.
> 
> Does anyone still use a slate and stylus that has found a comfortable stylus
> to use with arthritis or neuropathy?  I'm working on getting my brain to
> properly flip braille for a slate but I find that the couple of styluses I
> have are hard to use after a line or two.
> 
> Take care,  
> Tony
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