Flipping out over Flip Charts

RantWoman has been indulging her workshop habit again. RantWoman's workshop habit tends toward the low-tech, the kind of event where people are asked to contribute input for some or another set of questions with the input recorded on flip charts.

RantWoman penned the following as part of her account of the event:

The workshop included a large group presentation of many concepts, RantWoman was taking notes in Braille which is not as fast as handwriting. Many items from the discussion wer recorded on flip charts which (RantWoman) also does not read and therefore cannot refer back toin order to catch up. A suggestion was made to type up the content of the flip charts and distribute that to those present. ...

One of the people RantWoman emailed her report to reported someone's thinking to photograph the flip charts by cellphone and have the images mailed out. RantWoman thinks this is inventive but misses several points.

1. RantWoman has no camera on her cellphone.

2. RantWoman is not an encyclopedia of image resolution info about cellphones or webcams on someone's laptop. RantWoman has no idea whether images thus generated would produce output where the handwriting would be legible.

3. Even if images generated as above proved legible, the resulting files are UGLY to ship around by email and sometimes ugly even to transfer to email.

4. RantWoman sometimes pretends to interact with visual content, but would rather rely on her screen reader. Her screen reader cannot interact with images and would need some kind of OCR function to produce readable text.

5. RantWoman supposes the Optical character recognition (OCR) market is rich, but RantWoman does not know of any products that deal with handwritten content.

Other than that, the suggestion is a great idea, but RantWoman recommends reverting to typing especially if several people what to read the flip charts.