thanks Ken
regards
stuart
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On 21 Feb 2022, at 15:27, Kenneth Walsh <kennethwalsh12@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Stuart
A fantastic report of everything.
All The Best,
Ken
On 21 Feb 2022, at 14:12, Stuart Haxell <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:===========================================================
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
.
What a meeting.
Stuart Haxell.
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