Stuart! After today's unusual Tech chat, your note taking and reporting
deserves full marks and although I was one of the "doubting Thomas's" I think
that on this occasion your set of notes are exceptional.
As they say: anyone for a game of Tennis Stuart?
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Tech club notes Dublin
Welcome to the Dublin tech club. I am your lucky victim/ note taker for today
We had a number of interesting topics that were discussed today.
14 participants attended meeting today.
Cearbhall brought up the news that Peter O’tool is leaving fighting blindness
for NCBI. Declan wants to reassure everyone that their would not be a loss of
service because of this change. Discussion of different blindness groups
commenced after this including the history of NCBI.
Martin mentioned that he got his meter replaced and that the man who did it was
very pleasant. Discussion of blind tennis commenced with the two players Martin
and Stuart promising to play a game during the year if they get a chance.
Martin clarified when the national league of the blind got itss start. The
Irish association of the blind was brought up with mention that they were the
group that provided brail books while the blind league was a trade union for
workshops for the blind in the past. Discussion of other disability
associations were mentioned such as groups for deaf people. More discussion of
what Peter’s role will be in NCBI was brought up. Cearbhall talked about his
history with NCBI. Martin clarified that the new meter was for ESB.
Martin asked about the one step reader new name for KNFB reader. More
discussions of other scanning apps and how much better they are in comparison
to knfb reader was brought up. Hopes that it will be improved to a new standard
in the future were raised.
Joe brought up the shell phone and that that it was not compatible with 5g in
the states. Cearbhall gave Joe some help with exiting out of menues in zoom
using a backwards z to get out of menues. Joe had difficulty with this.
Enquiries were made into when 5 g would be rolled out in Ireland, some people
said it was already there.
Martin mentioned that seeing unseen was Friday at 2 o’clock from derry. 5th
march at 2 o’clock audio described in the abbey teatre is also an event that
will be happening. Joe had zoom questions about how to use zoom on a PC. He
can’t hear audio. Declan said which audio device zoom was using, joe uses jaws.
Declan said that he needs to tab around until he hears audio settings, then
enter that and select microphone. Select same as system in that area for all
options. An audio device is the port where equipment such as headphones are
plugged into or a web camera with its own microphone. Some jokes about ports
where mentioned at this time.
Cearbhall mentioned that voice over volume can be controlled from the rotar on
the iphone it is separate from the volume from an iphone and audio can be
switched between two headphones through the audio settings under voice over in
the accessibility settings. Joe was still stuck with zoom Declan gave himhelp
with more backwards z action. Stuart suggested turning off voice over and press
somewhere on the screen to close the menu he is stuck in. a 3 finger sipe from
left to right was suggested by cearbhall. Joe left and re entered the meeting.
Michael asked about areals during the storm and if people’s survived the storm.
He also asked about safari and a quick way of exiting a page quickly and
entering a new address. Stuart mentioned the clear button to the right of the
address bar.
Mary asked about audible subscription and shopping. She was having problems
switching between audible.com and audible.co.uk. it used to be easier.
Cearbhall mentioned that the territory issue was the issue and that audible was
messing around recently. Other people did not have this issue. Declan has his
kindle logged in on .com and audible on .uk he does not have this issue as a
result. Tom asked about changing voices in kindle. Declan lost his kindle. Go
into keyboard and language and download additional voices their.
Tom asked about the voice james in voice dream and using it in other apps.
Stuart clarified that this voice couldn’t be done. Sharing audio was brought up
Michael wanted to share an audio file with others. Only the host can share
audio in zoomm. The host has to enable screen sharing to change this. Declan
said that you can do this if your co-host or on the Pc tab to enable multiple
users option. Eamon asked about tabing on kindle. Declan said that you can use
Alexa to do this. Eamon asked about a tutorial for voice view for kindle.
Declan said that their was no need for one due to its function as a book
reader. Discussion of the costs of kindels and the number of adds present.
Declan said he would come back once he found it in a few weeks.
John asked about podcasts and android and a replacement for talk back. Declan
said their was 3 alternatives for talk back he recommended trying them to see
what they were like but not switching over to them full time. The podcast was
blind guys talk teck. The alternative speech software was called CSR. It will
be on the play store in the future. John listened to it on his google home
mini. The episode was 3 weeks ago. Declan discussed that creating a screen
reader was difficult.
Declan needs a proper phone and has ordered 2 new ones. His new phones are
coming from the UK and Hong Kong. He doesn’t like the keyboards or iphones or
androids, he prefers android because of its customisibility. Widgets were
discussed. Wigets are a window into an app. For example calender widgets allow
you to see the date.
Tom asked about making folders in e-mail on the iphone. He was given the answer
which was to select use edit in the top right then select new mailbox in the
bottom right of the screen. Just name your folder then place the folder in the
category you want after that. He wanted to save zoom links in a folder so he
wouldn’t lose them. This topic was discussed for a while. Dissussion of how
many history links can be stored in the zoom apps it the number 10 was
mentioned. Declan suggested copy the link that says zoom link and e-mailing it
to yourself so you can save it.
Gerard asked about streams of e-mail. He was given a lot of different pieces of
advice to solve this issue. Cearbhall suggested using the screen reader search
to solve this issue. Jaws key F for jaws. Significant attention was given to
this topic.
Mary suggested people should respond to the note takers and that the sender
should respond generally to everyone instead of a individual thanks to each
person individually. Debate commenced on the suggestion Tom asked Michael about
a discussion he had with a womanabout the Orcam . Tom spoke to the lady doing
the art gallery demonstrations from the Hugh lane gallery. He was having
problems accessing the links provided. Gerard brought up saving the link in
note pad concerns were raised that the link may become broken if this was done.
Tom asked if the abbey will continue putting shows on zoom, they have stopped
doing this according to Martin. Martin said he would enquire whether the 5th of
march show would be recorded on zoom to be sure.
Discussion of Martin’s age commenced, for a while. Bob asked about the
difference between searching on windows and your pc. He was told to tab after
he entered the search box to find where you want to search. I received a thanks
for taking these extensive notes from Tom and everyone else.
Mary asked about searching on You tube. When she exits a video she jumps to the
top of the screen instead of staying on the option she already entered.
Cearbhall suggested using the next button. Martin says he uses you tube on the
blindshell.
Martin was getting hungry at this point he brought cheese and indian food up
for some reason. The cheese was discussed, it was discovered that this
particular cheese was made from water buffalo not cow. This was an odd
conversation, cearbhall said something about a high pitch cow. Bob found the
speling of the cheese somewhere. Alexa was consulted for clarification on the
spelling and an incredient list. Alexa revealed that it actually was a cottage
cheese that came from either a cow or a buffalo.
The meeting ended
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What a meeting.
Stuart Haxell.
Sent from my iPhone
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