Thanks, Paul look forward to Monday.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Cearbhall, you can't beat the Human note taker!
Great notes.
Cheers
Paul
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FB-Exchange Club Cork
date: Saturday 26th May, 2023
participants: 8
A fortnight ago, the Zoom app became strangely uncontrollable and the Saturday
and Monday meetings had to be abandoned. Declan became available during the
past week and found a solution that involved providing a simple password to the
meeting after opening it from the email link. This single character password
worked fine to provide access to today’s meeting. After pressing on the link
in Declan’s email, the user was asked for a password. This code was set at
the digit “1†and effectively completed the process. It is hoped to have a
better solution for next week.
We were joined by a new member, Helen, using an iPhone 7. She Would like to
hear about access tools that are in common use as an aid to visual impairment
although she does not need them yet as her residual vision is still sufficient.
The group explained the use of Voiceover in particular, and other techniques to
aid vision such as zoom and colour changes.
Jackie is to acquire a new telly with 2 terabytes storage.
She is changing over to Skye Q. She has limited physical space for a 32inch TV
unit but hopes to squeeze it in! She defended her need for a screen to share
with family and sighted help.
Ger suggested the Skye Glass at a cost of €1000. Jackie had visions of
selling all her Alexas and knew she would not be able to survive the
experience. Ger recommended a 2 terabyte storage as being well worth the small
extra cost for recording.
Helen asked for an explanation of "Audio description". Stuart explained that
this describes a silent action or gesture that relates to the discussion but
will not be noticed by a non-visual observer.
The description is voiced when no actor is speaking. He pointed out that some
sighted viewers like to use audio description to help them to remember names.
Paul mentioned that the Abbey Theatre always use Audio Description on the first
Saturday of a new performance.
Cearbhall was helped to try to find his missing first page of the iPhone
desktop. The entire Home page disappeared for no apparent reason during the
week. Stuart suggested that the home page might have been hidden by some
accidental keystroke. No clues were evident in settings but there is, a ".."
somewhere on the screen that Voiceover cannot read and is thought to relate to
hiding and unhiding screens. Cearbhall promised to get sighted help and report
back.
Jackie had a great time with ChatGPT on the iPhone. It is available now from
the App Store. The meeting was highly entertained by stories created by ChatGPT
in which a tutor was portrayed in loving terms and in fierce, aggressive terms
in different stories.
Joanne was finding it difficult to open the Microsoft Seeing-AI "World
Preview". Ken and Stuart were able to bring her through it. She will try it out
and report. Cearbhall found it ineffective at building a route through his own
house but noted that it meaded more thorough testing before it could be rated
either way.
The meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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