[optacon-l] Re: another quirky thing to do with the optacon

  • From: "Sandy Ruconich" <sruconich@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 20:46:47 -0600

That reminds me of reading prescription bottle numbers with the Optacon--one 
of the things I use it for most!

Sandy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Gailselfridge@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 4:59 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: another quirky thing to do with the optacon


> That reminds me of something I did by chance. A friend gave me a coffee 
> mug
> for my birthday and it has a nice saying about friendship on it. She read
> it to  me but later I wondered if I could read it for myself. With the 
> good
> old  optacon, I could. I was delighted and told my friend who was 
> surprised.
>
> Gail
>
> That is unusual.  I collected those little fortune things from those
> cookies
> and had fun reading them.  I collected them into a file I wrote  on my
> Braille 'N Speak a long time ago and saved it somewhere.  Those  pieces of
> paper are so small!
> Marie
> ----- Original Message  -----
> From: <_maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) >
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> Sent:  Tuesday, May 11, 2010 3:30 PM
> Subject: [optacon-l] another quirky thing to do  with the optacon
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm getting quite a  collection of T-shirts and wonder if any of you can
>> read
>> the  sayings on them with the optacon. Sometimes you can feel the print,
>>  but
>> often you can't. I like to try it sometimes; readibility depends on  the
>> color of the shirt and the amount of contrast between the shirt and  the
>> printing, and the type of font. If I can't read it, I can at least  tell
> if
>> the shirt is a light or dark color.
>>
>>  Mary
>>
>> Mary
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> In a message dated 5/11/2010 4:56:48 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> mrudys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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> That is  unusual.  I collected those little fortune things from those
> cookies
> and had fun reading them.  I collected them into a file I wrote on my
> Braille 'N Speak a long time ago and saved it somewhere.  Those  pieces of
> paper are so small!
>
> Marie
>
>
> ----- Original  Message ----- 
> From: <maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 3:30  PM
> Subject: [optacon-l] another quirky thing to do with the  optacon
>
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm getting quite a  collection of T-shirts and wonder if any of you can
>> read
>> the  sayings on them with the optacon. Sometimes you can feel the print,
>>  but
>> often you can't. I like to try it sometimes; readibility depends  on the
>> color of the shirt and the amount of contrast between the shirt  and the
>> printing, and the type of font. If I can't read it, I can at  least tell
> if
>> the shirt is a light or dark color.
>>
>>  Mary
>>
>> Mary
>>
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