Re: Finding the Relative Size
- From: Winifred Downing <wmdowning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 16:15:33 -0700
Another story to add to the collection we are making.
In California there is a law that any agency receiving state or federal
money must have on its board of directors at least 20 % of the members
blind persons. I am serving on such a board here, and recently all the
members were asked to take a number of donor letters and thank the persons
who sent the money. We were asked to use the agency's stationery.
I looked at it with the optacon and saw that material had to be skipped at
the top and that, half way down the page on the right side, the names of
the officers and board of directors are listed. With my braille ruler, I
was able to measure the amount of space at the top and the right-hand
margin. I set up the paper and ran a trial copy on an ordinary white sheet
so I could see how much space I needed to give for the message to be
centered from top to bottom . I could also roll the finished sheet into
the brailler and see with the optacon where my print name was so that I
could sign under it in braille. I like to do that because it usually
captures the donor's attention.
One confession: I keep an old computer with DOS and WordPerfect 5.1 and
that was how I could so exactly predict the print. I don't think I could
do that in Word, though I am going to try it some day when I feel
adventurous.
At 08:43 PM 5/24/2006 -0400,
you wrote:
>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 for
>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?
>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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