<div dir="ltr"><div>Presuming this student isn't a braille user, the most thorough experience would probably be had through the T3 Tactile Tablet., where you press down on different things and it will read what they are aloud. <a href="https://www.touchgraphics.com/education/t3">https://www.touchgraphics.com/education/t3</a> I imagine that you'd want to contact them to get something custom made. The machine itself is $750 and no clue what they's ask for a custom item if it is even possible.</div><div><br></div><div>The technology is similar to livescribe pens, so you might be able to juryrig something with a cut up piece of livescribe paper over a tactile. Never done that before but it might work. If there's any interest I'll dig up some of our resources and try to get it to work.</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Xanth King</b></font><div><font face="georgia, serif">Accessible Formats Technology Specialist</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span>Pronouns</span>: <span>They</span>/<span>Them</span>/Theirs</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Wheeler Hall, Basement Level, </font><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:12.8px">Room 22</span></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM Karthikeyan, Ramya via athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I agree, tactile are the way to go..PIAF or embossed with a braille embosser or 3D printed.. Will need to wait longer for the multi-line braille displays to become economical to make it accessible electronically..</div>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Joshua Hori via athen-list<br>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt">Those would be perfect for the Pictures-In-A-Flash (PIAF). That big ole easy bake oven will make that content tactile with thermofoam paper in seconds.
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt">You just need to install the SimBraille font and replace the numbers with the SimBraille output, keep in mind that SimBraille only produces grade 1 output if you’re including instructions.</span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Friday, June 6, 2025 at 2:21</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Noaki Inaba Math Puzzles</span> </p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">A unique kind of Math puzzle was shared with me from faculty as an example of a fun assignment she likes to assign students:
<b><a href="http://All,%20%20A%20unique%20kind%20of%20Math%20puzzle%20was%20shared%20with%20me%20from%20a%20Math%20faculty%20as%20an%20example%20of%20a%20fun%20assignment%20she%20likes%20to%20assign%20students:%20%20%20The%20idea%20is%20to%20look%20at%20the%20numbers%20and%20design%20of%20the%20connected%20circles%20to%20identify%20a%20pattern%20and%20then%20fill%20in%20each%20blank%20circle%20with%20the%20correct%20number." title="All, A unique kind of Math puzzle was shared with me from a Math faculty as an example of a fun assignment she likes to assign students: The idea is to look at the numbers and design of the connected circles to identify a pattern and then fill in each" target="_blank">Naoki
Inaba Puzzles</a></b>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">The idea is to look at the numbers and design of the connected circles to find a pattern and then fill in each blank circle
with the correct number. It reminds me of Sudoku.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">We started chatted about how to make these accessible to AT users, and I must admit that I was stumped. I don't think alt text
will provide an equivalent experience.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">Some thoughts I had were - Would Desmos be helpful here at all to "listen" to patterns? I do not know enough about Desmos though,
so I did not go down that route with the faculty. I asked her to explain the essential learning outcome of the assignment to me and asked if an alternate assignment could be offered. She was open to this idea, but also commented, "I don't want to remove all
my fun assignments from the class."</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black">What would you advise?</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left:0.5in;background:white"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36)">Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web</span></p>
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