Re: the Optacon Buzz
- From: "Linda Gehres" <ljgehres@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 17:46:25 -0700
I, too, find the buz essential for print orientation on pages or envelopes,
as I think most of us Optacon users do, though I can understand how the
noise may be unpleasant for those not involved in its direct use ... sort of
like using a Perkins brailler in a mainstream classroom as many of us who
were mainstreamed in schools had to do ... and our fellow classmates just
had to live with it!
Linda Gehres
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Bowman-Jones" <mikebowmanjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: the Optacon Buzz
> Catherine,
>
> I for one found the buzz helpful in that any change confirmed that I was
> either too high or too low on the line of text.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 8:17 PM
> Subject: the Optacon Buzz
>
>
>> Optacon users are busy responding to the buzz. We feel it as well as hear
>> it and I don't think it bothers us for that reason. If it were a steady
>> buzz, a sound that continued at the same pitch and level all the time, I
>> think most people could tune it out. As it is, the intermitent nature of
>> the buzz would be annoying to some people. Others would have a legitimate
>> auditory problem with it. I know that because I could never sit anywhere
>> near a photocopy machine. The hum of the thing did something inside my
>> head. I could operate a copy machine and it did not bother me, but I
>> couldn't sit next to one for any extended period.
>> I summary, some people who are not directly using the Optacon might find
>> the buxx unsettling because of something in their auditory mechanisms.
>> Catherine
>>
>>
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>> -Catherine Thomas
>> braille@xxxxxxxxx /
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