Re: Some comments on the Optacon
- From: "Cynthia Handel" <cindy425@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 14:29:53 -0400
I can remember, when I first got my Optacon, my mother asked me to start
supper. I can't remember what it was, anymore, but it involved something in
a can, and she didn't get the can out. So, I got my Optacon and started
pulling cans out of the cupboard and looking at them, until I found the one
I needed. Boy, was that exciting! I was so happy, and there was no one at
home to tell. So, I had to save my excitement until later. But, that was
great, to be able to find a can with a print label, when I'd never been able
to do that before. That was more than 32 years ago, and the Optacon is
still just as useful.
Cindy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Gehres" <ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: Some comments on the Optacon
Bob and Pam, well said! Bob, like you, I'm a slow reader with the Optacon,
never having had one available for the kinds of straight text reading one
would do as in reading a book. There are certainly things that can be more
easily read with a scanner, but many tasks really can't be accomplished with
scanners such as we all have previously described. Plus, we can read, as
Pam pointed out, handwritten or hand printed notes or cards written to us
which scanners wouldn't be able to interpret. I feel so grateful to have
two working Optacons and to know of this list!
Linda Gehres
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Feinstein" <harlynn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:30 PM
Subject: Some comments on the Optacon
>I am probably one of the least skilled Optacon users on this list, judging
> from what I have read. I am bob in NY. However, despite this, the
> Optacon is a tremendous help to me in many ways: identifying mail, seeing
> if my printer is working, checking an envelope I address, etc. I recently
> received some medication (I take a great deal now) and I needed to know
> what was in each vile. I took the optacon, and tried to read the name of
> the medication. I could find words like "do not" or "take this" but not
> the name. After working at it for about an hour and a half (nobody has
> more patience than Optacon users) I found the name of the medication,
> written in the middle of the vile, to the right. I took a mental note of
> where the name was, and found it to be uniform with each vile. I was able
> to read the name in about 3 minutes as opposed to an hour and a half. Now
> the question: is it worth struggling for over an hour to read the name of
> a medication when a sighted person could have done so in a second? In the
> scheme of things, I'm not sure, but I had no sighted assistance, and I
> wanted to braille my medication viles. The next time I receive these
> viles, the task will be infinitely easier.
>
> But to read books, long letters, bank statements, that, sadly, would not
> be possible for me because of the effort and time. Still, I'm glad I have
> the Optacon. I wanted to share this because I believe the Optacon can be
> well worth the investment, even if one is not very fast with it.
>
> Bob
>
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