Fantastic notes thanks Lady WRegardsStuart
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On 24 Feb 2024, at 13:29, Jackie McBrearty <teambanglesltd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Welcome aboard the Saturday Morning Tech Train. We had 11 happy passengers onboard to discuss all things tech.We had Apologies from members.Fighting Blindness has put out a survey on their groups please find details below.As a valued member of our group(s), we would like to hear your feedback on Fighting Blindness Peer Groups you participate in.
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Jackie told us about her new Braille Display. Its the Brailliant 20 and she's very happy with it. This display has a built in screen reader, it can take an SD card and a USB drive. Its very easy to connect to a phone or computer. Jackie did have the Orbit so this is a major up grade from that device. Jackie is having issues connecting her bookshare account using the Brailliant, its unclear if the Brailliant just can't take bookshare Ireland accounts or if this is linked to the issues Jackie is having with her NCBI account to link to the rebranded Alexa skill. This is the blurb on the Brailliant from the NCBI website.
https://vi.ie/product/humanware-brailliant-bi-32/
A conversation happened around bookshare and the differences between .com and .org. Book share and connecting the alexa skill is an on going project for Jackie. however, at this point my eye glazed over and I wanted a gingerbread man.Paul has been asked to verify his facebook account. This puzzled us all as there appeared to be no button to agree to everything. Adrian and Paul shared screens in Whatsapp and it was discovered that the confirm button was not being recognised with voiceover. When Adrian discovered this Paul turned off voiceover and tapped around like his life depended on it and he was able to access facebook once more. We also spoke how screen recognition would also locate this button.
Anne-Marie was disappointed with the quality of blind square in the UK and also in Ireland for naming shops. Anne-Marie also said about how good be my AI is for reading sandwich boards out side cafe's. so once you walk into it you can take a photo and read the menu. Anne-marie continued thanking Adrian about helping on a powerpoint issue. We will not tell Eamonn Ryan what she done with printing and trees.Paul brought up the inaccessibility of the Bank of Ireland app. This app is getting more difficult to use for voiceover users and the Bank doesn't appear to be addressing the issue, the customer is always blamed and not the inaccessibility of their application.
Android people had a wee chat on telephone numbers in an email and copying and dialling said number using talk back. The same command of double tap and hold should have worked but this number didn't appear to be a link, when Ger did this command it highlighted the email address. Ger did get access to the number but he was curious was there another way.
The meeting ended.
Lady W
