I love it! Thanks, Martin.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Cearbhall!
You are a master wordsmith and the evidence is recorded in your excellent
review of yesterday's Exchange...Well done again
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Thank you, BOTH!
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Lady W and I both agree excellent notes Cearbhall.
Jackie
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in attendance: (16 Participants)
Cearbhall O'Meadhra, Jackie McBrearty, John Chambers, Martin Kelly,
Noreen Meagher, Vera Naughton, Tom Langan, Stuart Haxell, Annette
McCarthy, Eamonn O'Connor, Michael Brown, Bert Brown, Marian Murray,
Gerry Eastwood, Mary Lavelle, Declan Meenagh.
Apologies: Paul Griffith.
We are seeing signs of a lift in covid restrictions at last! Four of
our attendees were out and about in the last few days, taking in
islands, beaches, mountains, trains, trams and buses with many a story to
tell!
Martin am Mary had an exciting trip to Ratlin island, walking and,
when weary, taking the Puffin bus to help them on their way. Mary
described her adventures with an upside-down lighthouse, 400 steps
down and, yes, back up again. A bird sanctuary at the highest part of
the island was an exhaustive source of avian information. All of this
was in wonderful weather, lucky things!
We heard that Sightless Cinema is coming to the Civic Theatre in
Tallaght. A separate notice about this event was posted to the list
yesterday. The performance is free and is live with over 50 people in
attendance. It will also be available on podcast.
Tom continues his explorations in the wonderful world of Orcam and his
After Shokz headset. Having gotten used to the sound of the Orcam and
of Soundscapes speaking information in his ears he was startled when a
new voice announced "Charge me!" from within the After Shokz. Jackie
and others happily reassured him that the headset does announce the
battery level at start-up and when the battery gets dangerously low.
Tom is just back from a holiday in the sunny beaches of tramore and
Rosslare with only the sound of the wind, sea and happy people to
soothe his nerves. No commercial music was heard blaring over the
diners tables just the sound of nature. Wandering around the harbour
he was intrigued with the precision of Soundscapes in describing
streets and buildings left and right of him.
Martin told us about partially sighted car-Driving in Montello Park.
On a less frenetic level, we heard of many accessible driving games
that work well on the iPhone. Among others, AppleVis lists a useful range of
choices.
Marian is contemplating breaking into the world of the iPhone and was
advised that the iPhone SE was the best choice if she wanted to retain
the familiar home button. The later models all feature different
keystrokes to operate the home function that involve a bit of study
and learning. Bert was able to reassure her that it does work well
after a bit of getting used to. He then went on to described how to
set up your own shortcuts on the iPhone for various activities by
going into settings, Accessibility and in Voiceover, access the
VoiceOver Command section. He mentioned that there is a podcast that
describes this process.
Microsoft, in its huge effort to make more people use Edge, MS Teams,
etc, has been more of a nuisance lately. Bert and Michael both found
that they could not break out of the notification screen that Windows
threw up at start-up following the latest Windows Update. Despite
their considerable skill with the screen reader and Windows, they
could only give up and restart the computer. Later Bert found that it
was possible to call up narrator to find the close button and clear away the
offending notification.
He explained how to turn off MS teams in Windows settings by unchecking it.
Bert recommended using ninite.com whenever an application needed to be
updated or newly acquired. The interface is clean and simple. It works
smoothly with all screen readers and has proven highly reliable over
the years.
Eamonn does not like the new look of Firefox and DropBox. A Google
search will explain how to restore the classic view but it does not
seem to be too easy with a screen reader.
Jackie reported her recent finding that certain equipment needs a
32bit SD card and other need a 64bit card. This resolved a difficulty
that she was having with files in the Orbit 20 Reader.
Michael had lost some files from his USB drive after taking it out of
the computer without ejecting it first. After a lengthy discussion, it
was agreed that, for clarity, this needed more research. Here is a
useful-looking link that explains what to do in a range of operating systems:
https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001943.htm#windows
In the discussion that followed, there was great interest in knowing
what shortcuts were available. Here is a useful guide:
https://shortcuts.design/tools/toolspage-windows/
The meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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