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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>That’s well and good but I can’t afford the Monarch. I’m moving next month and looking for a new job. What the Monarch doesn’t do is provide a remote camera a person could place on a hard surface to read print. I often run into situations where using OCR isn’t precise enough. I want to feel the images and not just see the text in Braille or listen to it being read by a screenreader.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none'>From:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none'> Tactile-Talk <tactile-talk-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ken Perry via Tactile-Talk<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 20, 2024 1:29 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Tactile Talk for the discussion of the display and use of graphics on refreshable Braille platforms' <tactile-talk@nfbnet.org><br><b>Cc:</b> kperry@blinksoft.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tactile-Talk] Optacon<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You can look at symbols with Graphiti and monarck. I have a whole file of greak letters which is cool to look at but you can do all punctuation <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none'>From:</span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none'> Tactile-Talk <<a href="mailto:tactile-talk-bounces@nfbnet.org">tactile-talk-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>dan.tevelde--- via Tactile-Talk<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 20, 2024 1:56 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Tactile Talk for the discussion of the display and use of graphics on refreshable Braille platforms' <<a href="mailto:tactile-talk@nfbnet.org">tactile-talk@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:dan.tevelde@comcast.net">dan.tevelde@comcast.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Tactile-Talk] Optacon<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dan<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>