Thanks, chris, sorry to miss you there.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Excellent report Cearbhall you whipped it up well Chris
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On 27 Aug 2022, at 18:50, Kenneth Walsh <kennethwalshmarley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:===========================================================
Fantastic job as always Cearbhall.
All The Best,
Ken
On 27 Aug 2022, at 17:53, Cearbhall O'Meadhra <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx>===========================================================
wrote:
As Summer comes to a warm close, eight enthusiastic members
participated in the cork Tech club.
The discussion opened with Audible and difficulties with sourcing
books and libraries in the Audible app on mobile devices. This used
to be neat and easy but lately, Audible has become rather more
comlicated and it is not so easy to find books even those in the
user's own library. Sad to note that Audible is showing less concern
for its non-visual readers than used to be the case before Amazon took over.
Ken noted that a book retrieved from another subscriber was held in
"All Titles" and could not be moved from there into the member's own
library space.
Cearbhall mentioned that he is plagued with the determination of
Audible to force him to use the UK site instead of the US site which he has
always used.
Members explained that he should clear away all cookies and point to
the American market place before logging into Audible. Dominique
pointed out that Martin had circulated an article on cookies and their
management.
Jackie told of her difficulties with a recently acquired laptop in
which JAWS could not be loaded due to a shortage of RAM. On
inspection, the HSE had supplied a laptop with only 4G of RAM even
though this is not sufficient to load both JAWS and the Windows
operating system. She found that the memory could not be upgraded
because the memory board is soldered to the mother board. Jackie is
investigating to see if the wrong laptop had been supplied by mistake and is
seekign a more efficient model that would meet her needs.
Paul has difficulty getting Alexa to make a phone call for him.
Dominique suggested he ask Alexa to check for updates. The group was
not aware that this could be done. As a result, various Alexas were
called upon to check and all found that no update was waiting.
Dominique was enjoying herself and showed that the user can tell
Alexa to enable start of request sound or end of request sound.
Jackie has been exploring the use of NaviLens at home and out shopping.
NaviLens tags can be read aloud simply by pointing your phone in the
general direction of that tag.
She demonstrated NaviLens reading data on the label of a cereal box.
There was some discussion about the age of the system in which Pat
explained that he had been trying out the system for some years now.
However, it is clear that a renewed effort is being made to bring out
NaviLens into more prominent use. More information can be found at:
https://www.rnib.org.uk/sight-loss-advice/technology-and-useful-produ
cts/tech
nology-resource-hub-latest-facts-tips-and-guides/technology-guides-ev
eryday-l
iving/navilens
Jackie was impressed by the fact that the orientation of the package
does not affect the reading of the data. It was noted that QR code
reading does need to be focussed more closely and is more difficult to use
than NaviLens.
The Echo Show will also describe an object and read its labels.
Martin wondered if members had looked at the Aira service which is
coming in on the Blind Shell smart phone available from NCBI.
The BlindShell Classic 2 accessible cell phone, combines not only a
tactile keypad, but also voice control, and a high-volume speaker for
flexibility and ease in operation, eliminating the barriers to
communication found in smartphones with touchscreen navigation.
The Aira app connects people with vision loss to professionally
trained visual interpreters, called Agents, who read documents,
assist with navigation, access computers remotely, and provide any
other visual information needed to accomplish a task.
Martin noted that the cost of Aira is not cheap but is more secure
than the service provided by "Be my Eyes" which is free of charge.
Someone asked how to find the "+" sign on the iPhone. Ken
demonstrated that it is produced with a double tap on the "0",
holding the second tap for a few seconds longer than usual.
Our Apple expert, Dominique, reminded everyone that the apple iPhone
14 watch series 8 SE and Pro will be broadcast on the 7th of Sept. at
6:00 pm (Irish
time)
streamed live and you can tune in via Apple's website, via Apple's
YouTube channel, and through the TV app on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple
TV.
Ken reminded all that Tom will join the cork Club next week to talk
about the Orcam.
Martin was congratulated on his description of a recent visit to the
Curragh races. by Seen- unseen.The title of the article is: "
sensational trip without a whip!"
The meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e:
cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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