just to say that NCBI are aware of the issue regarding email exchanges. I
brought it to their attention on Thursday.
Eleanor
On 4 Sep 2021, at 17:22, Cearbhall O'Meadhra <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx>===========================================================
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in attendance: (12 participants)
pat Walsh, Paul Griffith, Martin Kelly, Stuart Haxell, Clare Cassidy, Kenneth
Walsh, Jackie McBrearty, Pat McCarthy, Dominique Farrell, Noreen Meagher,
Derry Walsh, Cearbhall O'Meadhra
Apologies, Gavin Allman, Chris Egan.
As the meeting began, there was a great discussion of the success of the
Olympic athletes and the achievements of the Irish team.
Clare took part in the NCBI "Clear Our Paths" campaign on the hazards of
walking in city streets. There was clear evidence of the distress caused by
pavements fouled by dogs. Hopefully this will raise public awareness to a
level that will result in stopping the practice. There was a bit of
technology involved in that She was intrigued to find that the recorder for
the interview was inside the microphone she was using.
Pat McCarthy described the difficulty of raising public awareness of issue
sin the absence of an Access group in cork. He is able to raise single
incidents with individual engineers but cannot raise a general campaign
without such a group. It was generally agreed that it was strange to find
that there is no access group when so many major disability service groups
have premises in the city.
Martin was happy to point out that Kildare can boast of a vigorous Access
Group with many successes to their name. we are all envious, Martin!
Clare recently explored the use of a local pub for outdoor dining and found
great difficulty in making use of the services.
Back to technology: Ken and Jackie reported that they both found that emails
which they had sent in reply to NCBI's reply were being blocked as infected
by a virus, possibly a trojan. At least eight people are experiencing this
same issue with replies from NCBI. It is worth noting the steps involved:
1. NCBI sends a clean message to recipient;
2. The recipient sends a successful reply to NCBI's email;
3. NCBI replies to the recipient's response and lands in the recipient's junk
folder;
4. The recipient moves the NCBI email from the Junk folder into the Inbox and
send a reply to NCBI;
5. The recipient receives a system rejection message saying the message is
blocked as infected.
Martin and Jackie will raise this with NCBI during the week pointing out that
the infection only appears when the emails are replied to. There is no
problem with fresh emails being sent directly from recipients to or from
NCBI.
Pat Walsh reported that when he tries to read a .PDF file requiring a
password using JAWS OCR, he needs only to type in any sort of text string in
the password box and the file opens up without any problem.
Microsoft and Windows Update came up for discussion. It was found that
pressing Windows key and typing "update" brings up:
"windows Check for updates, System settings, Press right to switch preview".
Pressing Enter will tell if a windows update is waiting or up to date.
Cearbhall reported a frustrating experience with audible when trying to
access a newly purchased book. Jackie advised that it is best to select the
Library tab in the Audible app and set the criteria to "All" titles. The
newest purchases and most recently accessed titles will always appear at the
top of the list. Other selection criteria can lead to confusing results to
the inexperienced Audible user. She reported that she has not been able to
access the Wishlist for the past few years.
Paul is having trouble with Group SMS in IOS on the iPhone. He would like to
copy all the members from his present group so that he can transfer them to
an alternative app. WhatsApp was considered but does not meet his needs. It
appears to be difficult to capture the whole membership list under IOS.
However there are instructions available for capturing lists of members on
the desktop in windows and in android. Cearbhall promised to follow-up on
this privately with Paul.
Jackie is looking for advice on switching between grade I and grade II forms
of Braille on her Orbit 20 +. Cearbhall promised to follow up on this after
the meeting.
The meeting ended
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