You are welcome, Tony!
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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Well done Cearbhall.
Many good and helpful links here with much valuable information included too.
This must have taken you some time and trouble to prepare for us.
Thank you,
Tony
On 03/07/2023 17:24, Cearbhall O'Meadhra wrote:
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Stuart described blind bowling.. Here the player throws a marker ball,
known as the "Jack", as far as possible on the fairway. The
'Director', who stands beyond the 'jack', indicates to the player at
what angle and distance the bowl has rested from the 'jack'. The
player gains points by landing the bowling ball as near as possible to the
Jack.
The Apple Watch featured strongly in today's session.
Joe wanted to know if navigation apps could be loaded into the Apple Watch.
Bert advised him to check to see if any navigation app is listed as
available under the Watch setting in IOS. If a suitable app is
available, it can be loaded into the watch directly from this list.
Eamonn sought advice on the choice of typing mode. to use on the Apple Watch.
He would like to use touch typing but Bert advised that the best
choice would be Direct Typing because the interface is too small to
make touch typing accurate.
In the course of experimenting with his Apple Watch, Joe found that
when Voiceover was activated on the Watch, there was no sound from the iPhone.
Bert advised all to click into David Woodbridge's "Apple Watch 101":
A Demonstration of the Watch App on the iPhone. This is a Podcast by
Apple Vis on Tuesday, April 28, 2015
"In this episode of his series of podcasts looking at the Apple Watch,
David Woodbridge walks us through the features and options available
on the Watch App on an iPhone once it has been paired with an Apple Watch."
Apple Watch 101: A Live Demonstration Of Getting Walking Directions
From The Watch And Apple Maps
Podcast by AppleVis on Friday, May 1, 2015
In this episode of his series of podcasts looking at the Apple Watch,
David Woodbridge asks us to join him for a walk as he uses Apple Maps
on the Watch to receive walking directions.
The new navigation app, VoiceVista, is now available in the app store.
Some members have downloaded the app and found that the interface is looking
good.
They will walk with the app and report.
Another app, built on Soundscape, is in beta testing and is called
"Open Scape". It is possible to subscribe to become a tester.
On public transport apps, Moovit is found to be very good at focussing
on a particular bus number and reporting on its arrival time. This is
particularly useful when the same bus stop has to cater for a number of
different busses.
The new TFI app is proving to be too clunky with Voiceover. It is
hard to find where the "due now" announcemnt is located.
All agreed that the Dublin Bus app was brilliant and that the "next bus"
works very well.
John finds that the TFI Live app is manageable by those with some
sight. He recommended saving the required bus number as a favourite
before searching for the arrival times. The resulting screen is much
clearer and less cluttered.
A live demonstration showed that Voiceover does not follow the details
of the TFI screen.
The topic of settlement and other cracks appearing in the home led
Cearbhall to suggest using glass tell-tales to monitor new masonry
cracks. These consist of a small piece of glass securely glued across
the existing crack with an epoxy glue. If there is the slightest
movement in the masonry, the glass will crack long before visual
evidence of an active crack appears in the masonry.
Annette is planning a major safari into the middle of Ireland and
wondered whether to use Apple Maps or Google Maps. Most experienced
voiceover users found Google Maps to be best. To find the address of
the premises that she intends to visit, it was suggested that she get
hold of the Eircode of the destination as this will provide all the
information that Google needs.
John has been exploring the Sunu navigation app. It uses a band like
a watch that vibrates on proximity to different objects such as bins or poles.
It takes a good deal of practice to accurately interpret the warning
vibrations. The bank is worn on the wrist of the free hand while the
white stick or guide dog is used in the other hand. The band cannot be
used on its own. Here is a review that gives more details:
https://tinyurl.com/33cfv4k7
The popular Voice dream reader has recently been bought by amazon but
its founder, Winston Chang has kept the writer and scanner apps under
his control.
Eamonn noted that the original purpose of Voice dream reader was to
assist people with dyslexia. After its creation, It became obvious
that the app would benefit blind users.
VizLens is an iOS app that assists visually impaired people to access
everyday appliances, such as microwaves, washing machines, and more.
Read more about it at:
https://tinyurl.com/4ebp3j6t
The meeting noted that web links on these messages become broken with
carriage returns imposed by the email process. Tinyurl.com was used to
create all the links on this report in the hope that the links will
all work properly.
The meeting ended with a reminder that the BBC programme "In Touch" on
Tuesday, 4th. of July, is featuring Blind Tennis.
am the Visionaries Choir is performing in the National League of the
Blind in Dublin next Saturday.
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
