That's what she said...........
On a more serious note, who decided that the common person can read something slightly larger than the head of a pin? It seems everywhere we turn we find teeny-tiny, little text that we are supposed to be able to read. Every time I get a new phone the text is smaller than on the one before------that I couldn't read except in the best of conditions. Even surveys getting recorded sometimes have so much info in such a small space that the text has been reduced to a ridiculous level. The thread below on selecting a new total station brought up a discussion on "squinting".
I'm not saying we have to go to "visually-impaired"-sized text on everything, but, this foolishness should have stopped about five downsize's ago. Then, you combine this with the digital screens that might be fine in an office with soft lighting, but, that spend 99 percent of their life outdoors in every lighting level possible.
Seriously, this is something that should be brought to the attention of the manufacturers en masse until they realize we just can't work with what they are providing. Somewhere, there must be industry standards that have been established providing tables as to the minimum text size that is appropriate for various uses.
If you need to carry a magnifying glass with you to do your work, it isn't your fault if you have fairly normal vision. One of the worst of these situations is the new packet/bottle of medicine that must carry every possible warning imaginable, but, is completely unreadable such that the user totally ignores the warnings.
It may have something to do with the pin head making up the form being able to see it on his screen, with no thought given to what the end user sees when it is printed or produced.
Another problem is the form that asks for your street address, town and state, with a space that is about an 1/8 of an inch high and only 4/8's long..... and there are SO MANY others....
It is part of the 'just because you can, doesn't mean you should' problem!
Ken
My biggest 'smallest' gripe is the text on my prescription medicine.
I have various flavors of magnifying glasses all over the house: big, little, illuminated, bi and tri lenses...
Just necessary tools for the golden years, I guess.
That's why I chose option number 2 when I had cataract surgery. Option number 1 was, "You'll have 20/20 vision but you'll need reading glasses." Option number 2 was, "You'll need glasses for driving, reading the menu board at McDonalds, etc. but you'll retain your close vision." Consequently, I can still read those prescription labels without glasses or a magnifying glass.
Of course, I need glasses to find the prescription bottle.
Since age 9 after a bout of rubella that left me with nearsightedness and acute astigmatism, eyeglass and contacts have been a way of life.
I have kept the same glass lens the last 8yrs. I had to get the prescription changed then because when I was on a trip to Vietnam, my frames broke and I had to get the lens on that set of glasses retro fitted into another frame. I think they did that with a bench grinder or an angle grinder. I did not witness the event because it was out back in the street and I stayed in the office because it was 115°F in the shade. I heard the erratic noise and I am sure it was not a precise cutting device from that and the rough finish on the lens.
What I have done to keep the same prescription is to adjust my present frames to fit on my face at different angles and distances from my eyes. NO joke, it works just fine.
My frames have been soldered many times and are falling apart, so I too am at that junction. These frames are worn out and the local options don't fit my lens. Frames are $8 for excellent frames in Vietnam and ten times that or more here.
Contacts were great. Slip them in and instant perfect vision. Then, the doc told me that my eyes were getting too dry to continue their use.
So I am shopping for new glasses or lasik eye surgery.
Now I know that white hair is just the beginning..........:woot:
"Now I know that white hair is just the beginning....."
Oh yeah, you gotta lot of surprises coming.:-)
Just as an aside, and not to introduce politics at all, but I heard that the reason Gov. Perry did so poorly in the GOP primary debates was because he answered every question with ...
"That's what she said!"
Sorry
Don
> So I am shopping for new glasses or lasik eye surgery.
I was skeptical but a year ago I tried Zenni Optical. New glasses, with bifocals, using the prescription from my regular eye doc, for $44 delivered - and I could easily read the cleaning instructions that came with them! When I originally picked up my prescription, one of doc's assistants said don't expect cheap, online glasses to hold up. Well, I showed her my "cheap" glasses the other day and she was surprised by how solid the frame was and how nice the lenses were yet. I'm about to order another pair from them and the good part is, if I have the original order number (which I do), I don't have to re-enter the prescription, just pick new frames and features.
I just love the volume of warnings on the bottles. It's like a small dictionary of terms. All crammed together. Not only do you need to read it, you also have to decipher it. Thanks mostly to the insurance/lawyers disclaimers. Hey maybe we can use disclaimers too!
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Don't worry. The print will get smaller, and smaller, until it no longer can be cifered, without help.
N
