Birthday Wishes from all at Sightless Cinema also Ger and enjoy all the
upcoming pampering.
Slainte! Martin K (The Birthday Song was a Blind Panic)
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Behalf Of Ger Mc
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Thanks for the birthday wishes sorry I couldn't make it to the club
Love the song but stubborn as I am I'm going to stick with the Android for all
my sins 🤣🤣😎😎
On Sat 3 Feb 2024, 11:25 p.m. wikiwiki, <wikifcb2000@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:wikifcb2000@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
I understand I do know that depends on the programming lanuge for sure I will
be having different extensions.
All the best
On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 at 20:19, Adrian <hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
You're welcome Wiktoria.
Depending on the project, coding language, and environment, debugging can
differ and might require additional extensions added to VS Code. It's not
always straightforward. For example, for C/C++ you'll need a compiler. I'm sure
the lecturer will cover this.
Adrian
On 2024-02-03 20:05, wikiwiki wrote:
Hi Adrian
thanks for that.
I use many different programming languages like python html sql c++ java. It
depend what has to be learned in my course for now in the future I do not know
which ones I be suing.
cheers
On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 at 18:13, Adrian <hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Hi Wiktoria,
in VS Code, it's F5 to run the code with debugging or CTRL + F5 to run without
debugging. What language is it?
Cheers,
Adrian
On 2024-02-03 16:11, wikiwiki wrote:
Hello
Everyone!
It sounds like you had an good meeting.
I am very sorry but was not able to join you for the meeting as first I am
studying hard in college and also feeling badly sick too.
So I had hard about the purpose smpart braille but is an good thing I do not
know from my point few like I am huge braille user. I would recomned an
braille notetaker or an braille display but unfortunately they are very
expensive but VI had funding for these type of devices. I had used the funding
3 tims from VI now it does take an long time I sometimes an year or longer.
It would be great to have some cheaper braille devices like I would be list
with an braille display. I am using a braille dispaly I would be list as my
hearing is o bad and screen reeaders are o use to me this is why I like the
braille dispalys.
Unfortunately they are not so good for everything.
I have an quick question any of us use visual studio code?
I am using it and would like to know how to run the code.
Also have proboems to read the output of the terminal is there any advise
please and thanks.
Best Wishes Wiktoria
On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 at 15:39, Stuart Haxell <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Cork Technology Club, 3rd February 2024
Good morning, everyone. Happy New Year! The note-taker here, so sit back and
enjoy the read/listen today.
11 participants.
Apologies received.
The meeting started with the early participants discussing the recent match
that took place between Ireland and France, wherein Ireland won. Woo-hoo, go
Ireland!
Some people found the commentary on Virgin Media to be the best. Clare
mentioned the competition that Fighting Blindness sent out information about
regarding the cookery competition that is taking place in Belfast at the
Titanic Centre. We wish her the best of luck in taking part in it. The
information regarding the competition can be found here.
www.culinaryabilityawards.ie <http://www.culinaryabilityawards.ie>
Martin asked what RSS stands for. The group went scrambling to ask their
devices. They eventually found an answer: RSS stands for Round Robin Server.
Dominique, however, figured out it was RSS feeds he was actually trying to find
the definition for.
The meeting suddenly crashed at this point, kicking everyone out of the meeting
unexpectedly. Cearbhall was finding it hard to enter the meeting but eventually
got in.
Cearbhall looked up the definition of RSS feed for Martin once he was able to
join the meeting. According to him, RSS feed means Really Simple Syndication.
Helen asked the group what she has to do to bank online. She inquired about the
nick taken out of bank cards. Jackie said that she needs to download the bank
app to start online banking. The group was not sure if it is accessible on
Android. It was also recommended that she speak to her bank for help as well.
She also asked about passwords and if she would need to change all her
passwords to the same, the group reassured her that she wouldn't have to do
this. The group also discussed the way they manage passwords for a while. JAWS
and NVDA were briefly mentioned alongside the Vision Academy that Vision
Ireland is developing.
Annmaria asked about Bank of Ireland and how accessible it is on iPhone. Jackie
said that, according to her experience, it is not very accessible. She finds
that the timer for the strong customer authentication runs out too quickly for
blind and visually impaired users to manage.
Jackie brought up an email she received from Google; she was not sure if it was
genuine. She has had issues with Outlook. It tells her about an email address
that she doesn't remember setting up in the past. She is quite confused. This
was discussed for a while. This led to a discussion about other people who had
received similar emails before. Cearbhall said that he received one of them
during the week. The group feels that they have become very sophisticated
recently.
Jackie explained what a recovery email is to Cearbhall, who was not sure what
it was. A recovery email is a backup email address you use to get back into
your main email account if you forget your password or get locked out. It helps
you reset your password and keep your account safe.
Dominique mentioned that she feels VoiceOver can be a bit sticky on the rotor
during a phone call; Jackie agreed with her.
Cearbhall doesn't like the layout of his home screen. He feels that it is too
cluttered. Dominique explained how to delete widgets off his home screen that
she felt were causing the issues. He said that his Hable One is the best way to
navigate his phone, in his opinion. To delete widgets from a home screen find
actions on the rotor and engage edit mode, swipe up or down until you hear
delete then double tap.
Dominique mentioned her email that discusses the Perkins Brailler she sent out
yesterday. The description of the Brailler from the email was as follows:
The Perkins Smart Brailler offers a more intuitive way for blind and sighted
people to communicate, teach, and learn Braille together. It has a 4-inch
display and speaker to provide visual and audio feedback, which is very useful
to someone new to learning Braille and their teacher, parent/guardian, or
sighted friend. Like the standard Perkins, with the front of the Perkins facing
towards you, it has the 6 dot keys, the enter and backspace keys, and the space
bar key in the same position. The main difference between the standard and
Perkins Smart Brailler is that the Perkins Smart Brailler has a few extra
buttons, a menu and functions, and a display, which I will discuss shortly. The
Perkins Smart Brailler also allows you to save files onto the internal flash
disk or onto a USB key as text files, which can be very useful if a teacher
wants to correct work from a student. It has a built-in rechargeable battery
which should last for around 5 hours.
Martin asked if anyone had experienced the Meta glasses. No one had done so.
Martin said he thinks they are only €300.
Jackie mentioned she was at a very good webinar during the week. She was very
impressed with how it was run. It was to do with technology that supports the
deaf-blind. She felt that it was the best-run webinar she has ever been to,
very professionally run. Some of the features that she liked included sign
language, closed captions, chat only visible to hosts to avoid screen readers
making it difficult to hear, and alt text on photos that were shown.
Helen asked about learning Braille. Jackie recommended doing a course with
Vision Ireland to learn it.
Martin explained how a Perkins Brailler works. It has six keys and works like
a typewriter.
Martin mentioned that he has come across a lot of packages in Lidl that have
Braille on them. He was shocked at how many packages had it.
Paul asked Martin if every lift had Braille in it. The group thought that they
did. Lifts also may have raised numbers or spoken numbers.
Annmaria asked how to navigate around text boxes on a document. Cearbhall feels
that she should be able to tab between the text boxes if they have been
implemented correctly. Press NVDA plus space, then tab according to him. This
will toggle between reading and edit mode.
Dominique asked if Martin's Brailler looks like the old ones that you would
have seen in primary school. Martin said that it is a very heavy device.
Martin mentioned he had a stylus frame. To use it, you write from right to left.
Cearbhall said he has been working with merging columns on Excel. You cannot
edit merged columns. The reason to use these is to make sure they fit right on
a piece of paper. He figured out how to unmerge the columns, edit the data, and
put them back as merged columns.
Clare wanted to know how to read messages with Siri. She would ask Siri to read
an email, and it would not read it back in its entirety. The group suggested
using VoiceOver instead of Siri to read messages. To do this, swipe down with
two fingers. The group also mentioned Read and Speak in the touch settings.
Clare concluded that VoiceOver was interfering with her Siri.
The group started discussing the Apple Watch. Annmarie asked what the benefits
were of buying it. Jackie said she feels it is very good for notifications. Ken
does not feel it is worth the expense of buying it. Jackie likes the
notifications for blood pressure.
Dominique asked about Teams; she wanted to know if Zoom had a username and
password for every meeting like Teams. Jackie said it is if you do not have an
account.
Ken wished Ger a very happy birthday even though he was not there today.
Something special was created and played for him during the meeting. A copy
will be included as an attachment to these notes today.
The meeting ended at this point. Reminder: there will not be a meeting of the
Dublin Technology Club this Monday due to the bank holiday.
Regards,
The note-taker.
