Re: optacon reading
- From: Catherine Thomas <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:42:03 -0400 (EDT)
Charles,
You reminded me of another feature of the o2pc program that I left out.
One of the things it could do is to automatically keep reading. Say your
cursor was at the top of a page in a document. You could pres a
combination of buttons on the mouse and the program would keep scanning
and read automatically. You just leave your finger on the display. There
was a beep to notify one of line changes. It was kind of a fun feature.
If the program were revised, one change would have to be to the font.
Quite a few of the symbols looked too much alike, e.g. the small l and the
capital I, or the number 7 and the question mark. The s and the 5 also
needed work. Another unique feature was that it could read all those
non-keyboard characters that sometimes turn up in documents which many
screen-readers pass right over. If people had musical notation on a
screen, this interface could probably read it, just to give an example.
It
would sure be neat to be able
to put this program back into the arsinal of apropriate alternatives.
And yes you are correct. The letters remained straight no matter where the
physical mousse was on the mouse pad. Generally, a person didn't actually
move the physical mouse unless you wanted to get a "feel" for a whole page
without arrowing. It was truly one of the neatest parts of the optacon II
even though only a handful of people used the interface as a
screen-reader.
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