Re: optacon reading
- From: dg140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Charles Pond)
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:00:24 -0400 (EDT)
Hi Mary. I can certainly see the optacon as being part of a multi-access
work station for a computer, since Braille and speech can read most things
more efficiently than an optacon. (sorry Maureen) But, as we do know,
there are just certain things which only the optacon can do. I find that
in the technical field, the opatcon is simply invaluable. Nothing even
comes close to its functionality, not even a Braille printer. Imagine the
screen access for some Windows features which an optacon would give, and
especially in conjunctioon with other "access" technology. Access is a
relative term.
Charles
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>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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