[optacon-l] Re: Detaching a check
- From: "Carolyn Arnold" <4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:23:08 -0500
Great endorsement and assessment, Bob.
I have a question to you on the list and would like to be contacted off list
at
4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My question is: if you have one of these phones with a lot of features, what
kind do you have? What access capabilities does it have? Have you compared
to other phones and made a decision based on blind-friendly capability?
Thank you for any information you can provide.
Smile, God loves you,
Carolyn
Sanford, NC
919-718-0700
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Feinstein" <harlynn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 3:32 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Detaching a check
> Yesterday, I received a letter informing me that I had received a check.
> with the optacon, I was able to find which part of the long piece of paper
> was the check as opposed to the statement, and I could read where the
> check started; I found, by gently folding where the check began, that it
> was perforated, and was able to tear it off and have it ready to cash.
> What was interesting is that the fold in the paper was slightly above the
> perforated line. Yes, I could have waited for a sighted person to help
> me, but it was a true sense of accomplishment that I could do this. I
> could also easily read the amount of the check, as it is written in
> letters. I like the optacon a great deal as it truly gives me insight
> into how things look, even simple things. I have been using it on a daily
> basis to read parts of my mail, and have gotten much more comfortable with
> it. I had let myself get pretty rusty, and decided I didn't want to lose
> my skills. I'm not a fast reader, but have gotten pretty steady. One
> trick an optacon teacher told me which helps is start tracking the
> beginning of the word slowly and as you are pretty sure you know what the
> word is, speed up. I use this technique.
>
> The optacon is truly a marvelous machine, and it amazes me that the index
> finger with the optacon array makes it possible to actually "see" the
> letters on a page: what is large, what is dark, what is underlined, what
> is in italics, etc. My reading of italics is quite poor, and I usually
> don't read much, but just enough so as not to lose the ability.
> Underlining does not give me a problem at all.
>
> Bob in Brooklyn, NY
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