[Reader-users] help re-calibrating reader?

[Gary Wunder]

Terry, I don't want to be argumentative, but the issue of whether or not to 
design the unit so we could calibrate it is not one over which we had 
control. The machine we purchased for our first batch of readers was 
state-of-the-art. We knew this was a limitation, and the manual mentions 
extensively the problem. I am not trying to say I like the fact that I 
cannot recalibrate, but Kurzweil and the NFB used the best technology that 
was available and brought the reader to the blind. This is not a feature we 
can design into the machine, but it is a problem we can avoid having to 
face, and it is one which is easily overcome if and when it happens.

If your desktop or laptop machine has a problem in bios which happens before 
Windows is fully loaded, you will need sighted assistance. At some level 
this is a fundamental truth for all too many blindness products - they are 
still designed at their core to display to their own screens, and our 
software is an add on which assumes correct operation of the Operating 
System.

Gary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <powerst at dcpcepn.nci.nih.gov>
To: "Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list" 
<reader-users at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Reader-users] help re-calibrating reader?


> Dave;
> First of all, why didn't they tell us about this recalibration problem
> when we bought the machine.  I am really shocked they would make a
> machine for the blind that we can not recalibrate ourselves.  A reset
> could have been created like in the Humanware devices, so we could
> recalibrate the unit ourselves.  It took me for ever to find someone who
> I could trust and match them up with someone to give them instructions
> on the calibration procedure.  I now keep my unit plugged in when ever
> not in use.
>
> Terry Powers
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Wright [mailto:gymnastdave at sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 1:58 PM
> To: Kurzweil National Federation of the Blind Reader user list
> Subject: Re: [Reader-users] help re-calibrating reader?
>
> hey there,
> My name is Dave Wright and I've been working with Jim Gashel for a while
> now with trouble shooting the reader. My contact info is listed below. I
> will be in Washington after 12, so please feel free to give me a call.
>
>
> Regards,
> Dave Wright
> University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC
> Email: dwrigh6 at uic.edu
> Mobile: (832)518-0707
> Please visit and Support:
> http://www.blindscience.org
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Meskys" <edmeskys at localnet.com>
> To: "reader-users" <reader-users at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 12:14 PM
> Subject: [Reader-users] help re-calibrating reader?
>
>
>> Will there be anyone I can see Monday at Washington to help
> re-calibrate
>> my
>> reader? My sighted wife will be there, too, and she could learn to do
> it
>> for
>> me should the need arise again.
>>
>> In December I went on a trip where I would not need it, and I left it
>> plugged in to maintain the charge, but it was accidentally touched and
> the
>> wire fell out. When I got home it was dead.
>>
>> I find this to be a major flaw in the reader. The cord from the
>> transformer
>> makes a very weak connection, and I frequently find it out.
> Fortunately it
>> is
>> rarely out for more than one day when I go to use the reader, and
> nothing
>> was lost.
>>
>> Thanks, Ed Meskys
>> Edmund R. Meskys
>> NIEKAS Publications
>> National Federation of the Blind of N.H.
>> Moultonboro Lions Club
>> edmeskys at localnet.com
>> 322 Whittier Hwy
>> Moultonboro NH 03254-3627
>> my credo:
>> Clinton lied, nothing happened
>> Bush lied, thousands died
>> and over 3,000 permanently brain injured
>>
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