[optacon-l] Re: Hi, Optaconers

  • From: Judy Jones <Judy.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 01:57:08 +0000

Totally agree with everything you are saying. I have also used it to check out 
my cell phone screen when I have had questions. That is a little hard to do 
with a touch screen, but is doable in some instances.

I have also used it in helping to mark appliances, and learn the buttons on our 
newer DVD  player.


Judy

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini smartphone.


-------- Original message --------
From: Robert Feinstein <harlynn@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:02/27/2015 4:52 PM (GMT-07:00)
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:
Subject: [optacon-l] Hi, Optaconers

Hi, Optaconers!

It's Robert.  First of all, I am truly so happy about the
wonderful emails
sent to the list.  We have quite a group of talented, bright optacon users
who do all sorts of things, including sorting laundry and reading cans and
CD cases!  I must say I never thought of using the optacon to see the
differences in patterns on clothing!  And I want to thank the person who
described the CD cases in such detail.

I wanted to mention something I did with my optacon yesterday.  I had
received a letter from Meals on Wheels, but when I tried to read it on my
Sara, the machine was reading the members of the board which were at the
left hand side of the page, plus the actual letter, which was confusing.
I looked at the letter with the optacon and noticed a space between the
board members and the letter.  I folded the page where this space was,
then checked with the optacon to make sure I had the actual text without
the board members.  I did, and put the letter back on the Sara, and
the Sara read
it fine.  This really amazed me that, with the optacon, I could tell where
to fold the paper to get my machine to read just what I wanted.

I am using the optacon that Richard made work on electricity.  My other
one stopped working and is being repaired: all I got was a horizontal line
across the array, but no print.  Richard assured me it can be fixed.

Please, share your uses of the optacon.  A friend of mine used to use the
optacon at work to read the computer screen, and she had the screen lying
flat so it was easier to read, and some tape put on different parts of
the screen so she knew what part of the
screen to go to, as she was in customer service.

Some have complained about the buzzing, but I kinda like it.  Also, just
by the sound, I can sometimes tell if I need to turn up the threshold to
make the print sharper.

As someone once said on this list, I'd put the optacon up with the
invention of braille.  It brings a print book to our fingers, which is
quite amazing!

Warmest regards,
Robert in Brooklyn, NY


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