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From: mcgrew@Eng.Sun.COM (Darin McGrew)
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Subject: Re: MICRO WAVE COOKING
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Date: 19 Nov 90 17:48:01 GMT
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In article <15708@bunker.UUCP> Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>Greg, those overlays, or dymo tape might not work on all touch
>pads.  The oven I had before had a touch pad that was heat
>sensative, and not pressure sensative.  If you cover up the heat
>sensative touch pad, the heat from your finger will not get to the
>pad....  In my old one, I had to put dymo tape next to the number 
>in stead on top.

We have a pressure sensitive touch pad on our microwave oven, and
we still put the brailled dymo labels next to the buttons instead
of on top of the buttons.  That way, the tape doesn't obscure the
buttons for sighted folks (like me), and we don't have to worry
about the labels falling off (the labels would flex every time
someone pushed the button if they were on top of the buttons).

We got an official braille overlay and braille instruction manual
from the manufacturer, but they weren't terribly useful because
the just used single letters (A, B, C, ...) to label everything
instead of using a mnemonic label.  Rather than try to remember
that "F" is Low, "G" is Medium Low, "H" is Medium, etc., my wife
very reasonably decided to label the buttons "LOW", "ML", "MED",
etc.  The problem then was that the instruction manual described
everything in terms of the original non-mnemonic, single letter
labels used by the overlay.  Sigh.  It's a good thing that
microwave ovens are easy to use without re-reading the manual
every time.

Darin McGrew			mcgrew@Eng.Sun.COM
Affiliation stated for identification purposes only.