Martin, you have my head swelling1
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Cearbhall! Smithery is the Kildare version of a great Word Smith...Take a
bow!
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"Smithery"? But thanks anyway, Martin.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Another great example of word smithery Cearbhall...well done!
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in attendance (10 Participants):
martin Kelly, Derry Walsh, Noreen Meagher, Paul Griffith, Jackie McBrearty,
Kenneth Walsh, Chris Egan, Stuart Haxell, Dominique Farrell, Cearbhall
O'Meadhra
Apologies: Gavin Allman, Pat McCarthy.
The meeting opened with a vigorous search for the reason why Jason Donovan
was missing from a recording of Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan singing
"Especially For You". Happily, Jackie found it under a selection held by
Amazon Alexa.
Turning to more mundane topics: Ken reported that he has invested in a set of
Aeropex Bluetooth headphones by Aftershokz. He is very impressed with the
clarity of the earphones but finds the sound "flat" when compared with other
output systems. Cearbhall pointed out that Aeropex allows the user to assign
one earpiece to Voiceover and the other to such audio as radio, zoom, talking
book, etc. This setting is only available to Aftershockz users. It appears
under Voiceover /audio settings in IOS but only when the Aftershokz headset
is connected to the IOS device. The normal audio settings for IOS do not have
this feature.
Cearbhall demonstrated a severe drop in quality of both input and output
audio with the Aftershokz Aeropex headset during the Zoom meeting compared
with the in-line Apple wired earbuds. He questioned whether this is caused by
Bluetooth or is a design failing in the headset itself.
A new feature that has not appeared until recently in IOS on the iPhone, is
the "Sheet Grabber" that appears from time to time. From Online search of
technical sites, indicates that this is a tool for resizing the "Bottom
Sheet" on the screen! In case all you experts are now rolling your eyes
wondering what this is about, a study of programming sources will reveal all!
Jackie is breaking new records with her accelerated learning of braille. In
only a few months she can read four-letter words without hesitating!
With hungry fingers, she is spying out for sources to train her in Grade II
Braille. She hopes to find an answer in the forthcoming NCBI Zoom meeting on
Braille.
Cearbhall reported an adventurous visit to Westport during the week to
address a conference on making Westport a model of accessibility. He reported
the difficulty in making a large, fully developed hotel with many corridors
and unlabelled room doors achieve this ambitious objective. He complimented
the hotel on providing a unique occasional table or hall table at the end of
every corridor. This clearly distinguished the passage from other ones.
another very useful feature was that some doors were set directly on the
passage wall and others were inset into a small lobby. This variety made it
easier to remember a pattern when memorising a non-visual route to the room.
However, each door was identified by a ceramic plaque that was smooth to the
touch and only carried a visual display of the room number. The room key was
a simple card that could be placed flat on the door handle to open the door
and was simple to use.
This led to a healthy discussion on non-visual tourism and people's
mis-interpretations of how guide dogs communicate to their owners and to the
availability of audio assisted crossings. The vagaries of County Council
CEO's who casually turn of audible crossings for no apparent reason came in
for a great deal of criticism .
As a low-tech alternative, Martin recommended simply slipping an elastic ban
on door handles to identify one's own hotel room in unfamiliar surroundings.
Noreen was puzzled to know why people use earphones so much. Many views were
expressed in response but Noreen was adamant that moving from room to room
was better than risking damage to the ears from concentrated audio generated
by earphones.
Chris discovered that a full reset of his "Beats Flex" headset rescued the
device from being thrown out as unusable. A combination of the volume and on
off buttons performed this task.
Paul has entered the world of Virgin Media 360 and is enjoying fantastic
colour rendering compared to his old TV. He hoped that others could advise on
success with menus on this Android device but the best available was a
parallel experience on other systems.
We look to further colourful reporting on this in the future.
the meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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