[Blindtlk] A Couple of Questions About Braille Watches and a Little Humorous Irony

Mon Aug 10 17:39:01 UTC 2015

HI,
  Thanks! I spoke with someone from the company where I found the pdf and she said that some of the instructions are not associated with this watch (which they do not tell you in the instructions themselves:)). Apparently, they have a few watches with similar instructions (some of which just have more features) so they stuck them all in one file rather than making instructions for the specific watch.
Happy Monday!
Chris

Dr. Christine M. Szostak
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Social Sciences
Shorter University
Rome, Georgia
szostak.1 at osu.edu
cszostak at shorter.edu

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Depending on how the PDF is created, blocks of text do not appear where they should.  If this is a file you are trying to open, you can vary the accessibility settings and see if that helps.  Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

Judy

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Hi,
  I was eventually able to find them, in pdf format, though they were from a site specializing in hearing products (though they do have some vision stuff as well). The pdf however did not even look quite accurate as there are some really weird instructions included that do not seem to match the watch. Given  that Maxi Aids is who provided this through Amazon, it was surprising that  no adaptive instructions were included and they did not seem to provide the instructions anywhere on their site (at least from my search (which was not overly extensive admittedly).
Happy Sunday all!
Chris

Dr. Christine M. Szostak
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Social Sciences
Shorter University
Rome, Georgia
szostak.1 at osu.edu
cszostak at shorter.edu

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These days you can go online to find anything, including instructions on how to do many things. Perhaps the instructions for this watch our online as well. You never know what you can find on YouTube! I hate this because not everyone learns that way. I hate the fact that's how you need to learn how to use the Victor Stream reader.  I do not learn by demonstration and it doesn't matter whether its a blind person doing the video.

Ericka
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> On Aug 8, 2015, at 10:43 PM, Szostak, Christine via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
>  I just have a two quick questions regarding braille watches.
> 
>  I have used them from time-to-time and as many here know, I recently ordered one that both talks and uses braille.
> 
>  My first, and most important question is this: although I have typically been relatively accurate at telling time on the braille watch, I  nearly always seem to be off by 1-3 minutes (since there are no tick marks between the 12 main numbers okay, technically dots:)). What I was wondering about is whether anyone here who uses a braille watch has gotten really good at accuracy both in setting and reading the braille watch (i.e., accurate to the minute) or if I should just expect  myself to just assume that I am going to be nearly accurate but not perfec:) because of the lack of the tick marks? Hopefully that made some sense.
> 
>  I was using a vibrating watch, but switched to the braille watch simply because the vibrations require more time to tell time and I do not want to use speech on a watch when I am in professional settings such as when at work.
> 
> My second question is whether anyone knows why it is called a braille watch when it is actually not braille. Are there actually braille watches with real braille and not just 1-3 dots on them?
> 
> Ok, so now for my little bit of humorous irony. I received my new braille/talking watch and it came with printed (but not braille or audio) instructions. Does anyone else see the irony here. If you are going to make a watch for the blind, why would you only provide printed instructions? Ok,  so many of us, myself included, I am aware have programs like OpenBook and/or the KNFB Reader,:) but I am guessing that the printed instructions probably show images to assist the individual reading them which would not work with those programs.
> Happy weekend all!
> Chris
> 
> Dr. Christine M. Szostak
> Assistant Professor of Psychology
> Department of Social Sciences
> Shorter University
> Rome, Georgia
> szostak.1 at osu.edu<mailto:szostak.1 at osu.edu>
> cszostak at shorter.edu
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