Below are samples of my work.
Talking Menus
BY RACHAEL BROWN
Jessica MacWhithey and her aunt, Susan Perry, were about to order lunch in a Florida restaurant when it became apparent that neither could read the menu. Perry forgot her glasses, and MacWhithey suffers from macular degeneration, a condition that does not allow her to read fine print. Their server was too busy to read the menu to them in its entirety, and the two women wondered, what if menus could talk?
They drew up a plan, presented it to their colleague Richard Herbst, and nine months later, Menus That Talk was born. The book-size electronic device holds the details of a menu recorded on a chip. Menus That Talk are designed to speak on request, with 15 buttons assigned to broad food categories like pasta, chicken, fish, beef and desserts. And each button is labeled in Braille. For those who don’t read Braille, they simply push a button to learn which category it represents. For example, if a guest pushes “fish,” the word fish is announced. When the button is pushed a second time, the menu then reads off all the fish items and prices. When the
guest is ready to order, a button turns on lights that signal to the server.
The device is compliant with the American Disabilities Act. Visit www.menusthattalk.com
