[nfbcs] Optacon thoughts

[Deborah Armstrong]

So I was helping a low-vision student this morning learn to use a desktop magnifier (VisioBook) to get her math homework done. I pulled out my old Optacon to insure I'd picked a representative page from the book and that I had it correctly oriented.

I taught myself Optacon so I'm not that good at it. But it got me thinking: nobody's ever came out with a modern Optacon; something that turns a camera image in to a tactile display that the user will OCR with his own brain power. Or at least, I don't think such a gizmo exists.

It's rather sad, really.

--Debee