Thank you Cearbhall for your minutes and to the members of the club for all
their interesting meetings
I had the same problem as Mary with email attachments coming as DAT files
rather than Word and PDF. I downloaded some conversion apps on the iPhone but
none worked properly. The root of the problem seemed to be that Fighting
Blindness (in this particular case they were the organisation sending me the
files) used Microsoft outlook for their emails. I do not know much about this
stuff as members of the club but it seemed there was encryption at work when
sent to an iPhone. If they sent the emails and attachments by way of a Gmail
account no problems ensued. Another workaround was with the company sending you
emails and attachments creating an email account for you such as
Marylavelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx .
All the best
Gerry
Excuse typos as message has been dictated using an iPhone.
On 28 Jan 2019, at 11:34 p.m., Cearbhall O'Meadhra===========================================================
<cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx> wrote:
In attendance: Bert Brown; Mary Lavelle; Marion Brennan; Michael Lavin; Bob
Corazza; Damien McKeone; Cearbhall O'Meadhra.
Apologies: Paul Griffith; Annette McCarthy.
Mary Lavelle demonstrated her Apple Bluetooth Airpods purchased for a
vastly reduced cost in Tenerife making us all jealous.
Cearbhall introduced his new Bowes Bluetooth earbuds and reported some
difficulties in getting used to the new equipment. He noted that
Bluetooth 5 was the best version of Bluetooth to buy as this was the most
compatible with the latest smart phones.
Bob demonstrated a device called a "Stopper which attaches to the back of
any phone and expands to allow the fingers of one hand to hold the phone
for selfies and showed how it collapses to half its height when not in use.
Mary reported that she received an email from a winmail source with
attachments that should have been six word and pdf documents for a meeting
but were delivered as .dat files. A discussion ensued as to what .dat files
were and it was agreed to follow up and report to the list later with any
solution that might be found.
Mary raised a query on the Audible app in which the app seems to permanently
select the Cloud as the book source rather than the device. Mary
disconnected from the internet to show that the book was being read in the
device and not from the cloud but the app still selects the Cloud option
rather than the Device. Again, this was not resolved and we undertook to
investigate further and report.
Damien asked for advice on the best choice of apps for use in the iPhone and
for accessing legal documents. He also asked whether JAWS or NVDA was the
better choice for use on the laptop. The meeting felt that he should start
with NVDA as this was free and an excellent program to use.
Cearbhall brought the Orbit 20 reader along and Bert and Michael explored
some of its features.
Next meeting Monday 4th of February.
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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