Dear Monique,
Many thanks for such a comprehensive record of the meeting.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Hi All, here's the minutes for today's meeting. Hope all is well!
Exchange Club 8th June 2020
In Attendance:
Declan Meenagh
Tina Leonard
Cearbhaill O’ Meadhra
Joe Murphy
Mary Lavelle
Jackie Mc Brearty
Tom Langan
Annette Mc Carthy
Martin Kelly
Monique Parnis
Joan Kearns
Gerry Eastwood
Tom O’ Neill
Martha Parkinson
Joanne Gorman
Eamonn O’Connor
John Chambers
Bert Brown
Declan announced that he got a new webcam and is testing it today. Looking
good Declan! He also informed us that he will soon have access to an iPad
therefore he will be experimenting with IOS soon.
Declan also announced that Paul Griffith apologized as he will not be in
attendance today.
Cearbhaill was getting “Active Speaker Avatar“ by his voiceover on his
iPhone. He had to turn voice over off during meeting. While doing this he
realised that a two-finger double tap would mute voice over.
Gerry was asking how to back up his device. Declan suggested Google Drive with
15GB of free storage. Photos can also be stored on Google Photos, but it fills
up fast and then one has to pay for additional storage.
Mary said that while she was muted, she pressed the space bar to talk but Jaws
was trying to speak the key while she was holding the space bar down.
Cearbhaill and Albert suggested to press “Insert + space†and wait to hear
a cling and then press “s†to stop Jaws speaking your keys.
Eamonn reminded us of the function “insert + space + j†to enter command
search.
Joan was asking if anybody has bought a windows laptop recently. What specifics
should one look for? It was suggested to go for something with at least 4GB of
RAM (8GB is standard nowadays) and ideally you should have
512GB hard drive. Install the Operating system on the standard drive
and use the hard drive for programmes. For photos/videos it is recommended to
store on external drives or SD cards.
John has been having difficulties with getting Siri to call a number with a lot
of “4†s in it. It was suggested to either call them out as “double 4
double 4 double 4†or store the number on his contacts so that he can then
just tell Siri to call the recipient.
Cearbhaill has had a windows update done over the night and this morning there
seems to be some issues with outlook. He will be restarting the computer later
to see if the issue solves itself.
Albert said he will put a windows 10 link for accessibility by Joseph on the
exchange list.
Gerry raised the question of the difference between NVDA and Jaws?
Cearbhaill said that NVDA is object oriented and that is why it is lighter
while Jaws is a bit clunkier as it is not object oriented but by no means less
efficient.
Jackie wanted to know where the “Windows†key is located. Declan explained
that it is not always located in the same place, but it usually is the second
key to the left of the spacebar.
Windows Key with some letters is a good shortcut for bringing up specific menus
like:
Windows + X brings up a very useful menu with control panel, network, apps and
features, power, taskbar etc.
Window E – file explorer
Window M – minimizes everything
Window R – brings up run
On windows 10 if you want to stop an app that is starting, press “ctrl +
shift†and “escape†to bring up Task Manager. Tab to “Start up†to
get
all the apps that could start automatically. “Shift + f10†to enable or
disable a particular app from automatically starting. Warning Alert! Be
careful not to click on any useful programmes while doing this.
Eamonn asked how to make a particular browser your default browser. Albert
said to go to “Start menu†and type “defaultâ€. Tab to “Default
appsâ€. You will find all your default programmes there and can change them to
your preferences.
Cearbhaill suggested Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is very accessible with screen
readers.
Microsoft Edge is becoming a bit more accessible with screen readers nowadays.
Declan has found it quite good for reading pdf files.
Jackie was told by a friend that her Skype account has been hacked. She
reported herself as spam. She had signed up with her old eircom address so now
she can’t get into her account to cancel it. Declan suggested to get in touch
with Microsoft. Jackie said that she’s already filled in a form, but she
can’t remember who her contacts where on it. She sent it in with all the
info she could gather anyway.
A conversation took place on the accessibility of Skype. Most agree that it
used to be more accessible but since Microsoft took over this was not so
anymore.
Jackie talked about the rumble tag and how comfortable she found it. For more
info go to rumbletag.co.uk. Cost was 23GPB with free delivery.
John said that he is having difficulty accessing the global menu on android.
Drawing the letter “l†hasn’t been working successfully lately.
Declan suggested to make sure to do a firm turn right and to go over the
gestures again perhaps there is something that works better.
Gerry said that before he started using outlook, he used to be able to get a
dropdown menu when hovering over a specific sender and be able to choose “see
all emails by senderâ€. He used to find this feature very handy and asked if
it is possible to get it in Outlook. Declan confirmed that the feature is not
there in Outlook and Cearbhaill suggested to use the search bar and copying and
pasting the email of the specific sender in it. This should bring up only the
emails by this sender.
Annette noticed that her phone screen yesterday stayed on all day and night and
it wasn’t locking when she pressed the power button. However, this
morning it was working fine. It was suggested that if it happens again,
she should power off her phone by holding down the home and power key until she
gets the power off screen. Then powering it back on and try locking it again.
Joan thinks she has too many anti-virus software on her computer. She has
Clamwin and Glary. But Glary is very intrusive, so she is going to try and
uninstall Glary. Windows defender is there too and that should be enough to do
the job, but she’ll have Clamwin there as well. Declan was interested in the
Clamwin anti-virus as a cross-platform, open source one and will have a look at
it before recommending it.
www.ninite.com has the Revo removal tool which is helpful in uninstalling
unwanted programmes on your computer.
Eamonn is trying to read a magazine that he gets as pdf in email attachment.
It is very difficult to search for specific words and navigate through it. He
tried bringing it into voice dream but still found it hard to follow. He will
be sending it to Cearbhaill and Albert for testing.
Martha also suggested to put it in KNFB reader as it is good at reading tables.
All fails he will contact the magazine and tell them that he is finding it
hard to read through the tables so that they fix the problem.
End of meeting.
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Best regards,
Monique
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