Great story, Stuart1 By the way, for the record, the traffic lights app is
called "OKO".
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Good morning its me this week providing you with the notes from this morning’s
cork technology club meeting So sit back and enjoy the read this afternoon.
The meeting began with a number of eager participants talking about the weather
and that the clocks are going forward tomorrow. We also discussed air pods and
how they sound when they connect to a computer. Some people found the sound
quality to not be great on a computer. A lot of banter and messing went on as
well during the pre meeting period. Paul asked if he should do a zoom update
when it appears, the group told him he should update zoom when it does.
Martin told the group that the way cearbhall advised him to sort his documents
worked perfectly for him. He previously wanted to learn how to sort them by
most recent. The group practiced singing for a while.
Jackie informed the group she purchased two new home pod minis to add to her
family. She told the group they are not as good as the Alexa. She can make
calls to anyone in her contacts, she can also create notes and reminders that
will appear on her other apple devices. The group talked about home pods for a
while. She finds the sound quality to be quite good. She said that it was
extremely easy to sign up. She only had to enter a four digit number her home
pod gave her and it connected to her apple ID. She finds that the dictation
quality of the HomePod is fairly decent. She demonstrated it for the group by
sending a text to a member of the group during the meeting.She also played some
music through it as well. It does not support I books. She gave the home pod 5
out of 10 overall. The group discussed smart speakers for a while.
Paul said he got a new credit card last week, he was disappointed that he could
not feel the numbers on it. Paul said that a way to find it without the
numbers is to find the part of it that felt like it had a bite taken out of it.
The group discussed different cards for a while. Revolute does not have numbers
that you can feel on it either according to those in the group who use it.
People found it hard to differentiate between the different cards they have to
use. Martin told the group he puts his cards in a container with different
sections in it with brail on it to know what cards are in each section. He put
the brail on it by himself utilising a brail frame.
Martin told the group he attended a meeting demonstrating the new envision
glasses. Apparently they can be used to read menus by asking them to read the
text, read the fish options for example. He found them to be quite
interesting. The prices of these products are quite high. You can get a 30 day
trial apparently if you can get them. Dominique asked what is the difference
between the 3 versions he saw on the meeting. They are more detailed the more
expensive they are. Martin said that the meeting was recorded and is on you
tube for anyone interested
Jackie told the group she can transfer calls from her phone to her home pod
seamlessly as well. The group discussed the differences between android and
iPhone and how easy they are to set up for blind people.
Paul asked how to close apps on his new phone if you can see. The group told
him its the exact same for sighted people as visually impaired people you close
them in the app switcher. The group discussed back tap, and how to get Siri to
turn off and restart the iPhone. Back tap allows you to activate a number of
shortcuts for example double tap the back of your phone to invert colours. This
can be found in the accessibility settings of an i phone. Some people have
accidentally called emergency services when they tried to restart there iPhones
in the past.
Cearbhall brought up brail devices, their are two new devices coming out in the
future. They are the optima and orbit-speak. He saw them at a zoom meeting he
attended yesterday. The optima is a laptop that will be coming out next year
that will cost around €3000. It will have a full qwerty keyboard, a brail
display with 40 characters, it accommodates screen readers, it runs windows
11 and is quite light weight. The orbit speak is a brail keyboard with in built
speech,. it is the size of. a paper back book. They use google voices. The
orbit speak will cost €500. The orbit speak is coming out in June.
The group discussed the technicals aid grant for a while as well. This has to
be approved by the HSE and on the recommendation of social workers. It is post
code dependent for those who may wish to apply for it. The group discussed
different grants and help that you can get in employment such as the workplace
equipment adaptation grant
Ken asked if anyone had started using the digital stamp from AN post. He is
curious how it works. Their is an app apparently. You apparently write a code
on by hand as part of it. No one was sure how it works
Stuart brought up he got to try out the amazon fire stick this week. This is a
device you plug into the back of Your television like plugging a USB key into a
laptop and you require a HDMI port in your television to use it. Stuart feels
that cited assistance is needed to make sure that you can set up correctly.Once
you haven’t set up, you can use voice view by holding down the menu and back
button for two seconds. Once you have that done, the tutorial is quite clear
and easy to follow this product allows you to use streaming services with
Amazons screen reader VoiceView. Some of the streaming services that are
available for this include Amazon Prime, Netflix and Disney+. Stuart found it
to be quite a good device and would recommend it for anyone who wishes to use
streaming services on the television
Ken brought up he got to download the Duns store and super-value apps this
week. He found the duns store app was easier to set up then super-value. Jackie
said she finds duns to be a very clunky app. Ken had some difficulty with
super value as some of the fields were hard to access and there was a lot of
steps involved. He found super-value to be quite accessible once he set it up..
Overall he was quite satisfied with them.
Jackie brought the ocu app up. This is an app that can be used for detecting
when a traffic light changes colour. It requires that you have your phone out
to use it. The group was not comfortable with the thought of holding your phone
out to use it. This app is currently not available in Ireland. The group talked
about how it works for a while. It uses the back camera to detect traffic
lights. The group discussed traffic lights in different parts of the country.
And crossings.
The group finished of the meeting talking about guide dogs and easter eggs.
The meeting ended at this point. Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone.
Regards
The note taker.
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