[Arizona-students] Ceramics class

[Arielle Silverman]

Hi Allie and all,

    The KNFB reader is a portable reading device that is currently in beta 
testing, so a number of Federationists from each state are testing the 
machine. It is basically a PDA and digital camera which are connected inside 
a leather-like case. You can hold the reader above a page or other piece of 
printed text and press a button, and the camera will take a picture of the 
page. About a minute later, the PDA will read any text from the page aloud 
with a voice synthesizer similar to the one that JAWS uses. The reader is 
good at reading most typewritten things, as well as some restaurant menus, 
boxes, business cards, and receipts. I believe that it will be for sale 
beginning in July.

Arielle
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allie" <Alejandra.Martins at asu.edu>
To: "Arizona Association of Blind Students List" 
<arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 12:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Arizona-students] Ceramics class


> Sounds like Kim is really helpful! I looooooove it when I come across 
> people
> like that!
>
> By the way, how does the KNFB work?
>
> -- Allie
>
> God may have created man before woman, but there is always a rough draft
> before the masterpiece.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "tony sohl" <tonysohl at extremezone.com>
> To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>; <arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 11:08 PM
> Subject: [Arizona-students] Ceramics class
>
>
>> Hi all, this is Melissa Cordell and Tony Sohl from Arizona.  We are both
>> taking a ceramics class this summer, and we thought you might like to 
>> know
>> about our instructor and our aid who we have.
>>
>> The instructor is willing to work with us.  The aid aid who helps us in
>> class, is very patient with us.  Her name is Kim Mendoza.
>>
>> Kim is very understanding about our blindness as well as Melissa's 
>> limited
>> use of her right hand and the fact that she's in a wheelchair.
>>
>> Kim asks us what is the best way to help us.  Kim will asm me for example
>> if it's ok for her to take my hand and show me what she's doing or
>> sometimes she will have me put my hand over her hand so I can see what
>> she's doing.
>>
>> Kim will even E-mail things to us if our scanner will not be able to read
>> the printed material.
>>
>> Linda Speranza our ceramics instructor asks us what's is the best way to
>> handle printed material.  I had the KNFB Reader with me the first day of
>> class and she was impressed with how I was able to read the handout which
>> she gave us.  It felt good that I could sit there and listen with the 
>> head
>> phones to the handout even while she was going over it with the rest of
>> the class.
>>
>> Let me know what you dink of this.
>>
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