Thanks, Paul,
Warmest regards!
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Cearbhal Hot notes to suit the weather
Thanks
Cheers
Paul
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On 16 Jul 2022, at 23:46, Cearbhall O'Meadhra <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx>===========================================================
wrote:
8 Happy participants braved the hot weather to come and Zoom together.
The thrilling news of Ireland's tremendous win over the All Blacks set us off
in great good humour!
Our Chairperson had an issue with the Vodafone router and the problem of
isolating each of the 2.4 GHz and 5GHz WIFI streams provided. Some 15 devices
were stopped until their connections with the modem were restored. A Modern,
dual- band router. was purchased and opened a major can of worms for our
intrepid Chair. For those who are not familiar with this concept, a dual-band
router is one that broadcasts both a 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz signal from the same
unit, essentially providing you with two Wi-Fi networks and the best of both
worlds. If you would like to learn more about this topic have a look at this
information on the web:
https://www.howtogeek.com/222249/whats-the
-difference-between-2.4-ghz-and-5-ghz-wi-fi-and-which-should-you-use/#content
So often the service provider cannot understand a problem that a visually
impaired person is experiencing and so a visual call back is a godsend. Both
Vodafone and Dyson now have video call-back which solved a few difficulties
for our members.
In this case, Vodafone were no help and, in the end, Google brought up a
YouTube video that showed how to isolate 2.4 GHz. Basically, the WIFI signal
needed to be weakened. So, the modem was placed in a drawer and all doors
were closed while all smart plugs were moved into the sitting room. Very
slowly, all plugs were brought back on line and all plugs were moved back
into their rightful sockets for use in lamps and the electric blanket.
Then during this process, hunger made demands to contact Uber Eats for the
first time. A KFC was ordered and the Uber Eats app proved to be very
accessible for ordering and for making a payment with Apple Pay.
The food came quickly and there were a number of update notifications on the
status of the order that you receive on the phone and the name of the person
delivering it. Then, once the food comes, you must give the driver a pin
number to prove the order is yours.
Face recognition came up for discussion. Some members found this to be an
unreliable method of accessing the smart phone. Particularly the iPhone.
Various methods were tried including multiple angles of the head and face.
While there is largely success, there are times when facial recognition
simply will not let the user gain access. Finger print recognition is also
available but with mixed success. In this, the finger, or a selection of six
or more fingers are scanned to ensure a more reliable response from the
iPhone. This is only available for phones with a home button.
The After Shokz bone conducting
Bluetooth headset was reported to give strange results on Zoom meetings. The
microphone is generally agreed to be poor for such meetings but the audio is
very impressive. So, listening to phone calls or audio aps is very
satisfactory. However, some members reported that the audio volume would
sometimes jump up to am unbearably loud level for no apparent reason. Various
ideas were offered but nothing definite was available. Lately, the volume
level of the various audio channels has been causing problems for iPhone
users but without any apparent reason.
Screen Recognition on the iPhone was reported to be very effective in apps
that are difficult to navigate even with Voiceover. We learned that Screen
Recognition enhances the already-existing VoiceOver feature. It detects the
layout of elements in the user interface, especially in apps that have not
been optimized for VoiceOver.
Up until now, every element of an app's interface had to be manually labelled
to use VoiceOver. Now, Apple uses machine learning to automatically identify
and label every button, slider, and tab.
The meeting drew to a close with a discussion of the new voices that are due
to come on stream very soon. No doubt we will hear more about them in the
future.
The meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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