I'm sure Stuart all you clever people by now have worked out where the
hash key is on your Windows computers.
Well there isn't one as such but try shift and the number 3 and you
have the pound sign, same thing.
I wonder if Jackie could kindly let us know the name of her new stand
and where she bought it as I've been looking for exactly that for a
while now.
Good minutes.
Thanks,
Tony
On 18/06/2022 15:24, Stuart Haxell (stuhax) wrote:
Cork technology club notes 18th June 2022===========================================================
Good morning or evening or whatever time you decide to read these notes. I
will be your note taker today for the cork tech club so as you can guess you
will be in for a bit of a read, let us begin.
Nine participants today
Table of contents
Contents
Cork technology club notes 18th June 2022
Table of contents
Pre meeting discussions.
focus group for RTE
New laptop.
New phone.
Quick assist.
Covid.
Voice control/iPhone
Zoom/Teams meetings
Zoom screen sharing.
Revolute/ text frauds
Conclusion
Pre meeting discussions.
The meeting began with a number of eager participants lining up outside the
door waiting for the teacher to open it. Ken was not feeling the best today
we wish him all the best and a fast recovery. The early participants
discussed the weather. It was quite different in various parts of the
country. Jackie said she was out last night the note taker thought she was
out in the nightclubs. Cearbhall told the group about an interview that he
watched were a Russian adviser to America discussed Putin. The recent podcast
that was put up on the FB list was discussed many people found it funny. It
was for sightless cinema. This went on for a while while we waited for more
people to join the meeting. Discussion on how fast the year is going came up.
The new apple voices that are going to be introduced in IOS sixteen were also
briefly discussed. Eloquence was anticipated. The history of iPhone voices
came up Alex was said to have been badly transferred to the iPhone from the
mac. The Waltons tv
show came up as well. It turns out that Jackie went to a show in the Sligo
hawk swell theatre called the 3 Mary’s. she found it to be fantastic. She
described in detail the lovely burger she ate during the show it sounded
delicious. She gave a description of the play. So, the note taker guesses he
was wrong in this instance.
focus group for RTE
ken posted up a focus group for rte. on the FB list recently. Ken said that
all details of it are in the e-mail. Ken was surprised that he received it.
Ken described how he sends e-mails with links to the list. Discussion of how
the list can sometime bring up hidden characters if you delete characters was
highlighted.
New laptop.
Ken described his new dell laptop he is extremely excited to get it. He said
he should have it by next week. It is a bran new laptop. Ken said he will try
NVDA for a while. Cearbhall gave the group a description of the differences
between JAWS and NVDA. Jackie also gave her opinion of it.
New phone.
Paul described his wife’s new phone. She went for the Samsung galaxy. She is
really enjoying it. She was able to transfer her details over no problem from
her Huawei phone. Discussion of this Chinese brand of phone commenced for a
period.
Quick assist.
Jackie informed the group that the quick assist function of laptops does not
work with JAWS. According to Jackie this is because it will no longer be a
part of windows eleven. She commenced to do a lot of investigation of this
issue. She contacted a number of groups that help people with accessibility
issues around Ireland. It no longer works with any screen reader according to
them. Quick assist is the function wherein someone can remotely access your
laptop to aid you. This issue has appeared in the latest update. Cearbhall
said he will contact be my eyes to have a look at this issue. This will
affect a sizeable number of service users according to someone Jackie
contacted about the issue. Windows key and F allows you to send a fault
report to Microsoft. She was told to put in hash tag accessibility to get
their accessibility department. The group tried to find the hashtag key for a
while as no one knew where it was on a keyboard. Many options were tried but
the note taker was unab
le to find it on his laptop. One of the participants swore quite vulgarly.
Chris also discussed his holiday to turkey at this point he sounded like he
had a remarkably interesting time.
Covid.
A number of participants discussed their history with covid. The symptoms
were discussed as well as the lack of masks available for sale. One of the
participants said they were a close contact. Chris mentioned that quite a
number of people on his plane back from turkey were not wearing masks. This
discussion went on for a while. Discussion of priority boarding was a topic
discussed as Chris was offered it on his way back from turkey, he was also
offered a wheelchair, he did not need one.
The hashtag issue reared its head again for a while with participants trying
to figure out what its purpose is. It was compared to drugs because of the
name.
Voice control/iPhone
One of the participants asked what the purpose of voice control was. It is a
way of controlling your phone by giving it voice commands. The note taker
used it to take a picture of themselves in the past. Jackie described her
fantastic stand she bought to hold her iPhone. She compared it to a
microphone stand. She uses it for teams and zoom and for voice dream scanner
it has improved the quality of the scanner. It cost her eighteen euro. The
issue of hashtag raised itself from the deep briefly like a dolphin jumping
out of the water before going under again briefly. It is called number on a
keyboard with JAWS. Paul pressed all the keys on his keyboard but could not
find it. Cearbhall found it on his keyboard. Jackie’s dog Sasha joined
briefly in the meeting to contribute to the discussion of hashtag keys. This
was a persistent issue throughout the meeting as you can easily infer.
Zoom/Teams meetings
Cearbhall said he worked on zoom during the week. His goal was to set up a
meeting during the week, but he faced difficulty. A number of participants
were able to do it. To do it enter the schedule option on the home menu and
follow the instructions from that point. Different methods were discussed.
Participants had a few diverse ways of doing it. Teams was brought up it is
extremely easy to do it on outlook. Jackie gave us her method. You enter the
calendar. This created significant discussion during the tech club. Whoever
created the meeting is the host and can open a meeting.
Ken mentioned that he did teams screenshare for the first time in teams. He
found it to be interesting. He got a small bit of help from Jackie in
practicing for doing it. Ken found it to be very fiddly but, in the end, he
found it worked very well for him. Hashtag came back here to briefly. Screen
sharing is different on an iPad in comparison to an iPad you need to go to
more calling options to find it on an iPhone. Share on an iPad. Trying to
figure out how to do it on the laptop came up control and e is the key
command to do it. ken wondered if you could share audio books through share
screen, Jackie said you could not do this. Stuart suggested finding audio
books on you tube to get it to work, Jackie said drop box might work we left
ken to figure this out. Comparisons of teams and zoom as platforms commenced
for a while. You can do a lot more as a participant to control a teams
meeting as opposed to zoom where the host has more strict controls over a
meeting.
Zoom screen sharing.
Martha suggested downloading a sample of an audiobook to your desktop as a
way of screensharing on teams. Jackie did not think this would work as it is
streamed not downloaded. Ken attempted to share an audiobook to see if it
would work during the meeting It surprisingly did work to the shock of all
participants. Ken entered zoom, turned on video, share content, screen, start
broadcast and microphone is on. Press home then selected his book. This was
zoom however, Jackie said she would evaluate this with ken on teams to
determine is similar results appeared at a later point. Discussion of
audiobooks went on for a while after this. A number of participants said they
do not like listening to eBooks on iPhone. They did not like the voices.
Jackie said she is planning to update her phone to try out the new features
coming in IOS 16. The lidar functions that will allow us to detect doors
through the camera interested her. Only the twelve pro and up will have these
features. Jackie shared
her favourite voice dream voice Graham, she did this through screen share.
Graham was sleepy but eventually woke up and wowed the audience with his
fantastic vocals. She got him to read the windows jaws guide Cearbhall sent a
number of months ago. Jackie said she shared her screen the same way ken did
to share his audiobook previously. For some strange reason voice over does
not come through with screen share on zoom. Ken decided to assess if a sample
of an audiobook from a website would share as well as a full book. Ken swore
quite vulgarly for some strange inexplicable reason he continued engaging in
this behaviour for a few minutes. Then he started humming to himself and the
audience for some reason. He faced quite a number of difficulties; however,
he eventually was successful. If you are not focused on the zoom call it was
discovered that you could not here the audio.
Revolute/ text frauds
Ken said he got a revolute message yesterday that said his account was
locked. It was fake be careful of these messages. Martha said she is a major
fan of revolute as she can transfer money easily. She got two buttons saying
request and send. Request means that you ask for money from someone while
send means that you will send them money. Do not add an extra zero by
accident. It was advised that you double check that your money has gone
through Jackie offered to help all you have to do is send her ten euro.
Discussion of other fraudulent messages continued. Jackie mentioned a Post
having one wherein you are told a package has arrived and you can be charged
two euro. Jackie checked in the post office and was reassured that it was
fake. Other participants provided their experiences with fraud text messages
and e-mails. Stuart said he nearly got caught with the caburies fraud around
easter. The note taker advises that everyone be incredibly careful with these
messages. Participants were
wondering if revolute worked internationally they were unsure.
Conclusion
The meeting broke up at this point and the participants decided to break up
for some lunch. This was an interesting meeting. The note taker hopes that
you found these minutes to be interesting.
All the best
Regards
The Note taker
Sent from my iPhone
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