Re: Finding the Relative Size
- From: <mandlcastner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 18:47:37 -0700
Winifred,
Could you explain a little more about rolling the sheet into the
braillewriter so that you could sign your name? I have always found it
difficult to place my signature properly even when finding the typed name
with the optacon.
Thanks.
Lori Castner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Winifred Downing" <wmdowning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: Finding the Relative Size
> 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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>>braille@xxxxxxxxx /
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