Re: thank goodness for the Optacon!
- From: "Michael Bowman-Jones" <mikebowmanjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:57:15 -0700
Greetings, List Members.
To chime in, I work for the California Department of Social Services and
used to do the same thing for our bureau. The only document I had a lot of
problems with was flowcharts.
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Clinton Miller" <clinton.miller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: thank goodness for the Optacon!
> Rachel,
>
> I use my Optacon at work to proofread absolutely anything on paper that
> has
> to go out of the organization or to another employee. It's amazing how
> quickly you can check format with a little practice. Re your message:
> It's
> amazing how sloppy some people with functioning eyes can be!
>
> Long live the Optacon!
>
> Clinton
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rachel" <rachel720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:17 PM
> Subject: thank goodness for the Optacon!
>
>
>>I had someone I thought I could trust update my resume recently. I had a
>> sighted person do this so that I could be sure the formatting was
>> correct. Well, boy am I glad that I took out my trusty Optacon to take a
>> look for myself: Two lines I'd recently added were not lined up with the
>> rest of the text. How could I have been able to know this without using
>> my
>> Optacon? My scanner certainly wouldn't have given me such critical
>> formatting information. Can you imagine how mortified I'd feel if I
>> somehow found out later, after submitting it for various jobs, that my
>> resume was not formatted correctly? We all know how hard it is for blind
>> people to get jobs under the best of circumstances; so the very thought
>> of
>> possibly having sent out my resume as it was makes me cringe! I've
>> actually gotten into the habit of checking the formatting of most
>> important
>> documents I produce or that I have someone help me format, just to be
>> sure. I feel sorry for those who never learned to use the Optacon
>> because
>> they simply cannot have the control over their documents that Optacon
>> users
>> have.
>>
>> Just wanted to share.
>> Rachel
>>
>>
>>
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