[optacon-l] Re: new optacon design
- From: "Korene Kegg" <kkegg57@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:37:33 -0400
Same here. I learned braille in the early sixties; Optacon in 1973. When I
was at the school for the blind, I really didn't see the need for the
Optacon. Then, oh, then, I went to a two-year college program, and couldn't
find an up-to-date algebra book. You guessed it--I bought and red the print
version. I think I get much more out of what I read with my hands.
I usually read fiction audibly and nonfiction braille and Optacon.
Korene
----- Original Message -----
From: "H & C Arnold" <4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 9:11 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: new optacon design
> Same here for Mr. Coffee.
>
> In God We Trust,
>
> Carolyn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marie Rudys" <mrudys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 7:09 PM
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: new optacon design
>
>
> Me, too; Braille first, way back in the early 1960's; Optacon in 1994. I
> just bought a new fabric steamer so I can do my wrinkled clothes, and
> unraveling the long sheet of instructions to find what I needed to know
> was
> a bit tricky, but I found it. I read in real time what I need to do with
> my
> new appliance.
>
> Marie
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Natalie" <nataliej@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:53 PM
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: new optacon design
>
>
>> I'm the same way. I learned braille in the first grade and used it
>> through
>> college. I learn better through my hands and when the Optacon came along
>> it
>> made everything so much clearer to me than tapes and readers.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dianne B. Phelps" <d.bphelps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:46 PM
>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: new optacon design
>>
>>
>>>I agree with you on this. I must say that I was thrilled when I acquired
>>>my
>>> first Kurzweil Personal Reader for which I scrimped and saved and got a
>>> bank
>>> loan to have. But I remember vividly thinking that there were still
>>> things
>>> I
>>> needed and wanted to see with my fingers and kind of wanted both
>>> elements
>>> within the same device. To this day, I find it more difficult to learn
>>> to
>>> do
>>> something via just hearing it unless I slow it down and listen line by
>>> line
>>> to the steps I need to take. There was just something about that put
>>> your
>>> hands on it in real time that made total sense to me along with the help
>>> of
>>> the OCR. The optacon is where I can really "SEE" it and where it really
>>> gets
>>> to my stunted brain.
>>>
>>> Dianne
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>> On Behalf Of John Huffman
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 4:51 AM
>>> To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: new optacon design
>>>
>>> Hi, Catherine and All,
>>>
>>> It's fine to "think outside the box" in terms of developing a NEW
>>> Optacon.
>>> After all, technology has advanced much since 1970, and it may be
>>> possible
>>> to devise new ways to accomplish old tasks which would never occur to us
>>> non-wizards.
>>>
>>> But I feel very strongly that in doing this the Optacon's primary
>>> purpose,
>>> READING print in real time, should remain the primary goal of all such
>>> redesign projects. That is a niche that critically needs to be kept
>>> filled
>>> by an Optacon or something very much like it.
>>>
>>> Cheers, JH
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 5:40 AM
>>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: new optacon design
>>>
>>>
>>>> Just as with scanners, there are some excellent braille translation
>>>> programs. If you need to read print documents and covert them to
>>>> braille
>>>> that is the method to use.
>>>> The Optacon reads print as print--no re-interpretation. Because the
>>>> Optacon reads print as print, we can read all sorts of non-standard
>>>> things
>>>> including lettering imposed on pictures. Lots of mail these days comes
>>>> with logos. We may not know all the details of what the logo contains
>>>> but
>>>> we can often if we encounter the same thing a few times, recognize the
>>>> shape. Again, reading print as print in real time is the Optacon's
>>>> primary
>>>> purpose.
>>>> Catherine
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> --
>>>> -Catherine Thomas
>>>> braille@xxxxxxxxx /
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>>>>
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