Thank you all for your compliments and giving the birthday celebrations a
mighty kick-off!
Viva la Roma!
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Cearbhall
Fantastic job as always. Enjoy the celebrations🎂🥳🍻
All The Best,
Ken
On 23 Apr 2022, at 22:21, Cearbhall O'Meadhra <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx>===========================================================
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12 participants
With thoughts of Summer and holidays away, the meeting opened with
plans for trips to Geneva, Rome and afternoon tea in the Shelbourne Hotel,
Dublin.
Turning to matters electronic, Ken had a great success with the
developers of the TV Guide Ireland app. He found that the app would
not work correctly with Voiceover and decided to do something about
it. Expecting to meet the usual reaction telling him to wait and see
if fixes could be introduced, the developers, Entertainment.ie,
surprised him by instantly implementing his recommendations. He was
asked to test the changes with Voiceover and report back, which he did
right away. The outcome of this happy exchange was a fully accessible TV
Guide app for IOS. Well done, Ken!
The key to Ken's success was the use of Screen Recording to
demonstrate the behaviour of Voiceover with the various activities of
the app. This made it easy for the developer to realise that the phone
was not naming the channels featured in the Guide.
Ken is confident that a new version of the app will be available in
the next
48 hours.
It was noted that many app developers fail to keep up with Apple's
changes in IOS and so an app that was working well can suddenly become
unusable.
Jackie is battling on with unique and highly creative solutions to the
Sight and Sound Hable challenge. We are sure she must be in line to
win one of these very useful keyboards. She had everyone in stitches
with her crazy efforts to prove that the Hable keyboard can do
anything without going near the iPhone or Android phone whilst
flourishing a ripe banana as the symbol of her identity. Jackie is
especially adept at creating videos of her success. In doing so, she
has managed to create a suite of clever videos of her remarkable achievements.
Yours truly was struggling to get Alexa to call out the right time.
The device was stuck one hour behind GMT ever since the clocks went forward.
Guided by a chorus of voices, I launched the Alexa app on my mobile
and instructions to select the Echo device and open the Settings tab.
This was not so obvious at first and the Greek chorus issued many
instructions until the right link was found and finally adjusted to "Irish
standard Time".
Chris was horrified when he hungrily downloaded a new and exciting
book from BorrowBox only to find that as soon as he hit "Play" the app
switched immediately to "pause" and would not go any further. After
much trial and error and blessing Bolinda and all its audio books,
Chris found his way into the Chapter management function by activating
the "More" button. In this way, he managed to start the download of
the book and listen to it from the beginning after all.
It should be noted that, even though Chris has never experienced this
before, other users have found that Bolinda does not seem to rewind
every book after it has been returned. The key is to download all the
chapters if the WIFI is fast enough. Alternatively, swiping around the
player screen or accessing the More button, as Chris did, will always get any
reluctant book going.
Ken had three issues causing difficulty with his use of the Facebook app.
Firstly, he was being inundated with notifications relating to other
people which prevented him from reading the messages and comments sent
from his own contacts. He will look into the possibility of turning
off notifications in the app settings.
Next, he found that after making a video selection, he found that he
was given a video that was elsewhere in the list and not the one that
Facebook had confirmed for download.
Finally, Facebook Messenger is driving Ken insane. The Dictate
function will take his initial words but will not take any more after
he has stopped speaking as he pauses for thought before continuing to
complete the message.
Jackie uses Messenger frequently to send multiple photos to her
sighted friends. She likes to give a piece of alt-text with each as a
means of completing the message. To manage this with Voiceover, she
prefers to add the alt text immediately as she uploads each photo. It
seems that it can be difficult to tell which photo is getting the alt
text if this is done after a whole set of photos have been loaded.
Paul is really pleased with his new iPhone sE 2022. He already notices
that the battery lasts 50% longer than his old phone.
Dominique is contemplating getting a new phone. She reported that her
sainted brother is exhausted trying to convince her that 64 gigabytes
is sufficient for her usage. Various experts around the meeting
explained how right her brother was. Dominique may now have relented
and promises not to buy the 256 gig version! We await the outcome of her
forthcoming travels with interest.
Chris was disappointed with the attitude of the agent in Harvey Norman
when he sought assistance with the After Shokz. He finds that the
volume will suddenly amplify to a painful level for no reason.
Restarting the After Shokz brings the audio back to normal levels. He
has tried several other headsets in his possession and he is satisfied
that the problem is exclusively due to the After Shokz headset alone.
However, the assistant refused to change the headset saying that it
was an Apple problem, not a headset problem. Jackie confirmed that she
experienced similar audio volume bursts with the After Shokz and
brought her set back to Harvey Norman in Sligo and received a much
more helpful response. The agent replaced her headset without question right
away.
The meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e:
cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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