[optacon-l] Re: Reading with Optacon
- From: "Mark Blier" <mblier@xxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:59:22 -0700
Hi, All,
I just don't think that the Optacon in its present form is the be-all, end-all,
final word and savior of our ability to read, even a little. I still think the
Video-Tim approach is a good idea, since it gets rid of the vibration, and I am
going to stick to that.
Gail, frankly, I sense your petulence and your mocking tone, and I want none of
it; there is no room for that here, or on any list.
Mark Blier
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----- Original Message -----
From: <gailselfridge@xxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:48 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Reading with Optacon
Since the "stupid" vibration is what makes the image we can feel, how do
you propose to do that? If it's fixed, it would be much more difficult to
change the image as you move on.
Gail
Hi, All,
All of this is true, celebrated, and all of that, but, does it have to
stop here?
Get rid of the stupid vibration ...
Mark Blier
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Gehres" <_ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxx)
>
To: <_optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) >
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:23 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Reading with Optacon
I haven't put my two cents worth in lately as you all have so eloquently
expressed
many of my
own feelings, especially regarding reading with the Optacon 1. I feel so
lucky to
have been taught how
to write print and read embossed print before the Optacon came into my
life. Just
the fact that I can
identify mail with an Optacon and do an everyday task so much more quickly
and more
easily with it than I
ever could do with a scanner is so important to me. Just the fact that I
can verify
whether I've typed my
checks correctly and gotten the part of the bill you detach into its
window envelope
correctly is for
me something that means the difference between being independent and
having to hire
someone to help me, and I feel
proud of the fact that I can maintain that privacy and independence given
that I
have my Optacon. I know
it's been said hundreds of times before by those of us on this list who
have a hard
time imagining how people not using
Optacons can read certain kinds of things, and while we all know about the
other
options available, I'm
just so glad to be of a certain age when the Optacon came out and I
learned to Use
it in the
pre-computer days when having an Optacon opened a whole new world of
independence
which hadn't been
available to us at any time before.
Linda G.
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:17:44 -0800, Lori Castner wrote:
>I feel that way, too; there is just something about the immediacy of the
>material and the personal contact with the page.
>
>Lori C.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Nick Dotson" <_nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(mailto:nickdotson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) >
>To: <_optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) >
>Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 5:47 AM
>Subject: [optacon-l] Re: e: Re: optacon 1 VS. 2
>
>
>>I call my Optacon the number 1 element in my technological arsenal for
>>independence. I like the speed I get with other solutions, but I feel an
>>inner glow of pride when my finger and brain are involved in the process
>>of
>>directly reading "mystery print" from an apparently blank brailleless
>>page.
>>(grin)
>>
>>Nick
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Sue Mangis" <_susanmangis@xxxxxxxxxxxx
(mailto:susanmangis@xxxxxxxxxxx) >
>>To: <_optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) >
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:51 PM
>>Subject: [optacon-l] e: Re: optacon 1 VS. 2
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Each tool we use makes us more independent. Each tool has a job
>>>and I can pull the tool I need from the toolbox to complete a
>>>task. It's good to have choices.
>>>
>>>Sue Mangis
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