[Tactile-Talk] Optacon

[dan.tevelde at comcast.net]

I'm changing the subject line to reflect Chad's message and his mentioning
of an optacon. Welcome Chad to the list. I recently got a an optacon but
need to re-learn how to use it. I wish there was a new optacon which would
take advantage of today's technology. I've run into situations where I
needed to know the print equivalent of a Braille symbol. I was talking with
a sighted person who kept inconsistently using the terms bracket and brace.
He described what they looked like visually but that didn't mean anything to
me. The emerging graphics displays are beyond my budget. I'm subscribed to
an optacon list where we have occasionally talked about developing a new
optacon. Unfortunately, the person driving the project just died. His name
was Noel Runyan. Another reason an optacon would be helpful is when the
primary and secondary relationships in a table change. If I run into a
situation like that when I scan something with a phone, VoiceOver
incorrectly reads the data because the hierarchy has changed. It will read
the left column before reading the right column. With an optacon, a person
could manually pan a camera and read data in whatever order they wanted.
When one of the main developers of the optacon, James Bliss was still alive,
I wrote him an extensive proposal of how I thought a new optacon could work.

 

Dan

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