In attendance: (12 Participants)
Martin Kelly, Noreen Meagher, derry Walsh, Martha Parkinson, Pat McCarthy, Ken
Walsh, Cearbhall O'Meadhra, Gavin Allman, Sean Kavanagh, Paul Griffith
Jackie McBrearty Chris Egan.
Ken and Jackie explored the host settings in Zoom to turn on the doorbell to
mark the arrival of a new person in the Waiting Room.
They found it by opening Zoom and signing in as host, then starting a meeting.
Selecting "more" in the bottom right of the screen, Selecting "Meeting
Settings" and then enabling "play, leave and join sound ".
This feature is only available to the host.
Paul is wrestling with the problem of getting into the Bank of Ireland to work
with his accounts. If he goes through Firefox, he is met with a question
asking "do you have the app". He wonders what would happen if he said "yes"! In
fact, he does have it. After some discussion, it was agreed that nobody knows
yet what the Bank will respond with. Some version of two-factor authentication
is feared. Paul has decided to keep saying "no" for the moment as this will
allow him to get into his accounts in the usual way. Paul agreed to send a
copy of the Bank message to the list for further clarification.
Jackie is getting used to two-factor control in her Amazon account. The app
asks for confirmation of her id on the phone, which she finds reasonably
manageable .
Martin mentioned that he is involved with the "hardliners" writers group.
These are all VIP writers and Meet on Saturday mornings. This explains why he
arrived at the exchange club out of breath!
Ken was wakened in the small hours when Alexa suddenly started lighting up very
brightly. Jackie agreed that this could not mean that someone was accessing
Alexa and suggested that it might be because Alexa was being updated.
Paul, Jackie, derry and Ken commiserated on the loss of sports channels from
Sky. it appears that Sky did not want to apply for an EU licence now that
Brexit is up and running and prefer to retain UK services only. Various
expensive increases were noted because of Brexit including the importation of
steel and the export of horses not being permitted into Britain.
Ken took the plunge and updated to IOS 14.3. He has found no major bugs yet.
However, he finds that he cannot delete or close email drafts and demonstrated
the difficulty to the meeting. Nobody had an answer after many attempts and all
agreed that this is a new bug that will, hopefully, be cleared up some time in
the future. Meanwhile, Ken found that he could email the draft to himself,
which removed the message from drafts, and then delete the message from his
inbox.
Ken and others also agreed that IOS dictate and Siri have deteriorated badly.
Martin is desperately trying to move his Fire Tablet from Eircom to Gmail. He
has lost the access code for Eircom and found it frustrating when Apple
Accessibility failed to help him to make the necessary adjustments. The meeting
advised him to set up a new password for the Eircom account so that he can then
remove it from his system.
Under IOS 14.3, Ken noticed that IOS no longer fills the screen with an
incoming call but reduces it to a small window at the top of the screen leaving
the desktop or other screen content undisturbed. A two-finger double tap does
not answer the call as it used to because the phone call is no longer in focus.
After some discussion, it was agreed that this is probably an attractive
behaviour to sighted users who can continue their previous activity while on a
call but is a nuisance for VoiceOver users.
Martha wondered how she can convert Alexa into a Bluetooth speaker for the
iPhone.
Cearbhall did a quick search on the net and found that the iPhone should be
opened in the Bluetooth settings and placed beside Alexa. She should then tell
Alexa "pair" and the connection should result.
Derry had difficulty finding the sign-out button in his audible Profile.
Martha, Ken and Cearbhall all gave helpful suggestions including the precise
location of the sign-out button in the profile settings, the use of the
four-finger single tap at the bottom of the screen to jump to the last line of
a long profile.
Martha was surprised to learn that she could ask Alexa to find a book in
Audible and to instruct Alexa to buy the book as long as she has credits
available.
Breaking mews! Noreen's Apple Watch has finally arrived! She has begun to set
it up and will report progress.
Chris advised that an Post sells exclusive post boxes for individual homes.
There are only two keys. The client has one and the postman has another. This
way, the post is secure and can be delivered safely without touching. It costs
about â¬70.The postman registers the drop and an email is sent to the user.
Chris was wondering why Voiceover has the option of turning off the voice. The
meeting pointed out that this would permit the silent use of Voiceover
keystrokes and prevent Voiceover from speaking during podcasts, films or other
audio services. It also enables more comfortable Braille reading which is fed
by the text that Voiceover speaks. A three-finger double tap mutes and unmutes
the voice.
Sean is getting used to the echo show and wondered how to turn on skills in the
device. Jackie explained that he should command the device to "Turn on
....skill" and the device should enable it. The Echo Show uses Voice View as
its screen reader.
Martha wondered how to find the Delete, Sent Items and other folders in the
laptop version of Outlook 365. Cearbhall looked up the question on the net and
found that the only direct way to find a particular folder appears to be
control+shift+f to open the search utility and type in the name of the folder
or email. Martha will give it a try but agreed that the search function in
desktop versions of Outlook are very difficult to manage with Jaws or NVDA.
The meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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