There are some fonts which can be difficult for even a sighted person to read.
For example with the word "turn", the letters r and n often run together,
appearing to be "tum" as in "tummy".
In order to differentiate between a letter l and a number 1, there is often a
line coming from the top and to the left at an slight downwards angle.
Consequently, in some fonts, if the numbers are not spaced enough, 111 could
appear as the letter M as in "Michael".
George
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From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf
Of Ben Mustill-Rose
Sent: 10 January 2021 11:28
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: A question
Hi,
Visually o and 0 look fairly similar so that explains the o's. I've never heard
of 1 being interpreted as m before but that's almost certainly what happened.
Cheers,
Ben.
On 1/10/21, Robert Feinstein <harlynn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Listers, this is Bob from New York. I was reading something with myto view the list archives, go to:
scanner and it read "we are celebrating our moth birthday." I found
that strange, and re-scanned. Got the same results. Looked at the
page with my optacon and it said "celebrating our 100th birthday.
Totally clear. I am just curious: why would a scanner read moth
instead of 100th? I usually can figure out why an error occurs, but this
time I'm stymied.
Just curious.
Hope all of you are well and using your optacons. Bob
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