Sorry for the wrong name sorry about it.
Wiktoria
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 at 13:31, Eleanor Martha Burke <
eleanormarthaburke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
thank you to Martin for putting forward the fact that I was on the BBC
Radio 4 In Touch on Tuesday 21st February. I was interested in Martin's
comment about UK guide dog training in hotels and no longer in centres.
this has been the case for years and years! congratulations to the
visionaries choir on getting first place in the competition they recently
entered in Arklow.
Eleanor
On 20 Mar 2023, at 13:25, <paulfgriffith@xxxxxxxxx> <paulfgriffith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
both
Hi Folks, it's a warm and mainly dry day in Dublin today.
Everybody is in good humour after the Grand slam in Rugby both for the
senior team, and also for the second time by the under 20's in Cork.
Well done to all the players, manager , coaches and all concerned with
teams.Documents.
There were 12 participants today.
Martin kicked things off, with a question on the display of his
the
His documents are in alphabetically display mode and he wants them with
latest at the top, working down to the oldest at the bottom.arrow
Open the document folder and arrow right and go to the view menu, and
down to display by date.should
Michael wanted to know how to increase the volume on his phone, he
go to voice over, in settings and look for increase volume.should
Cearbhall thought that this should be in the rotor menu, but the option
there was to increase the speech speed and not the volume.
Paul thought that while he was speaking to us on his smart phone, he
press the volume up button several times to increase the volume.with
Victoria has a problem in getting her braille display machine to work
her android phone.on
Cearbhall said that she has the braille machine hard wired and not
connected by Bluetooth.
As I don't use braille and have little understanding of this problem, I
will hope that
Cearbhall can find something in settings to overcome her problems.
Mary normally logs onto Zoom through the history menu, but when logging
this morning, she found the history menu empty except for the CorkSaturday
meeting.clashes
Mary has not been at the Cork meeting for a couple of years as it
with her choir practise meetings which take place every Saturdaymorning.
Cearbhall's
Mary finally got into the tech club by clicking on the link in
E-mail.week.
The link for the Dublin meeting should be in Mary's history menu next
bombs,
The alert which is being introduced in the UK, to alert people through
their smart PHONES warning them about disasters, weather problems,
war and other major problems was discussed.===========================================================
This will be a sharp bleep like an air raid siren, with some small texts
telling the public what to do in a grave situation.
Also Mary told us about the next play in the Abbey theatre on April 8th
which will have audio descriptions.
The final question of the day was asked by that man from the West.
Tom wants to know when the Orbit Reader
Does it have speech yet.
Cearbhall promised to investigate this for Tom.
Martin informed the meeting that in England, guide dog training was now
being done in a Hotel, and not in guide dog centres anymore.
Congratulations to the fighting blindness choir who got first place in a
competition in Arklow last week.
Martin told us that Eleanor was on a recent edition of the bbc radio 4
programme IN TOUCH.
That's all Folks
Paul
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