[Electronics-Talk] +AFs-Electronics-Talk+AF0- Thank God for the Optacon+ACEAIQ-

[Pamela Dominguez]

Wow!  That is so good!  You could do so many things with it.  As far as I 
know, no scanner will tell you where to put a signature, or be able to tell 
you if your pen wrote, and all that other stuff.  Pam.

-----Original Message----- 
From: S L Johnson via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2017 1:05 PM
To: Blind-Talk
Cc: S L Johnson ; electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Electronics-Talk] Thank God for the Optacon!!

Hello NFB Friends:

I am so thankful that I still have my Optacon.  I had received some
paperwork that needed to be signed and dated in a specific place.  I was
able to find the correct place on the document and then check to be sure my
pen had worked.  I also was able to check to be sure my printer had printed
the envelope correctly.  There is nothing worse than sending in an unsigned
document because your pen did not work or mailing a blank envelope because
your printer was out of ink.

I got a shipment from CVS for some over the counter medications and first
aid products.  I had no way of knowing which bottle was which.  I put them
on my scanner which could not read them.  So then I got out my trusty
Optacon and proceeded to read them and label them in Braille.  I do this
when my groceries are delivered too.  In all these years since the Optacon
was discontinued nobody has come with a device that can read almost
anything.

I have also done some interesting things with my optacon such as, locating
the  blank space in order to sign greeting cards, telling which side of
wrapping paper was the printed side, distinguishing my pale blue pants from
the navy pants by feeling the density of the vibrations on the tactile
display, distinguishing my printed shirt from the solid colored one by
feeling the difference in the display vibrations.
I guess what I am trying to say is it is too bad this wonderful technology
is no longer available to the blind.

Sandra Johnson
SLJohnson25 at comcast.net






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