in attendance (12 Participants)
Jackie MacBrearty, Declan Meenagh, Gavin Allman, Chris Egan, Pat McCarthy,
Martha parkinson, Albert Brown, Elaine O'Neill, Noreen Meagher, Ken Walsh,
Derry Walsh, Cearbhall O'Meadhra. (definitely!)
Arising from last week: Derry Walsh assured us that he was actually present
last week.
Declan was happy to demonstrate a new microphone and was delighted to hear that
he was sounding better than usual.
Martha said that she had joined Disney plus on a temporary basis to see the
"Artemis Fowl" film. She found the app inaccessible until Jackie explained how
to make it accessible. The problem was that opening the app from the film
download, gave a screen without any control buttons. Jackie showed her how to
make them appear and the app remained fully accessible from then on.
Pat pointed out that when you change your App Store settings, ( Going to
Settings> [your name] > iTunes & App Store, and with the intention of
Automatically downloading apps purchased on your other Apple devices, the
selection applies to all your devices when you set it on your iPad but when you
set this option on the iPhone, it does not extend to the other Apple devices.
Ken remarked that he used always deal in cash but now he finds it safer to use
his card so that he is not handling coins and paper. This led to a group
discussion and it was agreed that the AIB app is very accessible on the phone.
Other bank apps where not reported.
Jackie said that she prefers to use her Revolut card for transactions as this
controls the amount she can use and gives a detailed report of immediate
transactions. Revolut is an app that can be downloaded from the App store or
from The Google Play or App Store. The app is available for Apple Watches,
iPhones or iPads with iOS 11 or newer, and a virtual card can be ordered
(that's impossible to misplace) the same way you would order a physical one.
Simply go to the 'Cards' section in the app, select 'Virtual' and choose a
virtual card. This card will instantly appear in your app and can be used for
online purchases only. You can have up to 5 virtual cards.
Pat pointed out that this card uses near feel communication. A user worried
about personal hygiene, in these days of the Corona virus, Could put a
disposable hanky around the card.
Jackie wanted to know how to set Outlook to only show her name in the from
field of an email without her actual email address. Declan found the answer in
his vast store of knowledge and explained the steps involved.
In Outlook, choose File > Account Settings > Account Settings.
Select the email account that you want to change, and then choose Change email
Some members reported that Microsoft's Narrator is fairly ok now and reading
some parts of the screen more clearly than JFW. Cortana was mentioned as a
built in voicing service as part of Windows.
Derry asked how he might stop the iPhone from reporting every bit of
punctuation. Jackie explained that he needed to move the rotor to punctuation
verbosity and set it to "Some" as this would make Voiceover pause on
punctuation without actually voicing it. Pat observed that this could also be
set in the rotor settings under accessibility in the Voiceover settings.
Ken made the dramatic announcement that he is going to invest in a new iPhone!
He asked for recommendations of the best model to optimise battery performance.
He would prefer to go for the largest memory size affordable and a discussion
ensued as to which models were made available at the larger memory sizes.
Elaine reported that she finds that she cannot get out of an email message on
her iPad once she has opened it for reading. After several suggestions which
were of no avail, Ken discovered that she must click on "switch to full screen
mode" to bring her back out of the email to the list view.
A discussion developed about the appearance of the screen on the iPad compared
with the iPhone. On the iPad, people find themselves caught in a list of items
on the left of the screen with no apparent way to move into the detail of the
item. Chris, explained that the iPad is divided into two unequal frames. On the
left is a list of items, such as emails or files, and on the right two-thirds
of the screen the detail of the item is displayed once it has been opened.
Elaine uses "near field communication " (NFC" tags to identify objects at
home. She explained that these are electronic sticky tags that are linked to
recorded names on her iPhone under Shortcuts. The tags are read by holding the
iPhone camera over the tag. She explained that the process of recording was
somewhat lengthy but that she had a recording of step by step instructions
which Ken offered to make available to anyone on request.
The meeting ended.
The meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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