RE: Finding the Relative Size
- From: "Westmoreland, J. R." <jr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 09:20:09 -0600
I just recently found a great use of your first point.
I'm taking the braille transcribers course.
The information and training in lesson 15 of the course deals with
italics, underlining, small caps, and other typeface issues and how to
transcribe them to braille.
While the course is available in braille because of the rules for
transcription you have no way to REALLY know what the exercise text is
all about.
Using the optacon and the print copy of the course materials leaves no
doubt as to what the typeface changes and items really are.
The funniest thing about this whole issue is that to provide you the
information in braille they practically have to give you the answer to
the entire exercise except for contracting of the braille. <smile>
This same issue happens to occur in a couple of other places in the
course as well.
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Just thought you might enjoy this one as a funny spot so early in the
morning.
J. R.
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J. R. Westmoreland
PacifiCorp I/T Telecom Network Support
Phone: (801) 220-4784
Email: jr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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[mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Catherine Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 6:43 PM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Finding the Relative Size
This is another unique use of the Optacon. We can compare one character
to another. We can feel for ourselves the differences between capital
and small letters. If we print two pages in teo different fonts, we can
compare the readability of the print size-wise. We can decide that
something might not scan because the print is so blurry or so very close
together. We can actually feel the slant of italic print and determine
=66or ourselves which words an letters are italicized.
We can feel the length of a signature line to figure out how much space
there is to write in. If there is a vertical line, we can decide if it's
part of a picture or if it separates columns of text. If the line does
not extend down the whole page we can figure out why. Is there a picture
at the bottom=3F
We can squeeze in between grid lines to read the informatin they
contain.
Some of these tasks are not easy but they do contribute to our
independence and to our understanding of the realities of our world.
Catherine
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