Paul, I'm beginning to put them out now on my Irlcom group.
Thanks,
Tony
On 28/02/2024 11:31, paulfgriffith@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Tony, your welcome,
I love those articles, they appear usually on Sunday’s Journal
Paul
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Paul thanks too for that report especially the mention of the Journal money articles.
I have just read the latest one of those and the lady featured surely is a little treasure to be sure.
Tony
On 26/02/2024 16:48, Cearbhall O'Meadhra wrote:
A great tale, Paul, thanks a million!
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Hello Folks, Weather still a little cold, but nearly at the end
of Winter, but mind that expression, Don’t shed a cloth until May
is out.
What a great sporting weekend, with Ireland still on track for
back to back 6 nations rugby champions.
But the highlight was Italy drawing with France, and taking a
penalty at the very end which would have won Italy the game, but
the ball , hit the post, so nobody won.
There were 13 Participants for today’s Tech club.
The note taker went on a rant, about the Bank of Ireland app on
his iPhone 13 mini.
First of all a couple of weeks ago, e, he could not read his
deposit savings account, but found a way around this problem, by
going to the link withdraw funds.
Then it says withdraw from account, and it then calls out your
savings.
Then you can stop this request and terminate your withdrawal.
Now there is a problem with his credit card account. It says first
your Balance is up to date, but does not give you , your balance.
Also, when he uses the credit card the transaction goes through,
but voice over, does not read out the payment figures.
But sometime later a day or so, it will then read out the amount.
There is no way that you could call this app, fully accessible ,
it is not.
The bank would be better off, doing what they do with their cookie
advice that accept all or reject all, to avoid any litigation.
They spend scant time in regard to the needs of vision impaired
customers when designing their app.
Rant over, but I notice that there are a number of people sending
in E- mails with similar problems using BOI app.
Paul the note taker also had another issue in reading a story on
the Journal newspaper app.
Every Sunday, the journal has a story about some person or other,
and they tell their story about how they spend their money in a
given week. It’s a great insight into the world of 30 to 60 year
old working people, their jobs, their live style and where they
spend their money.
Paul was listening to the story, and about 70% through the story,
he was suddenly ejected back to the very beginning of the article.
He decided to read the story again, using voice over, and the
story was read completely without a hitch.
This was the second time that this happened, first reading , he
was suddenly transmitted back to the start of the article, and
always the second time the story is faultless , again reading
with voice over.
Nobody could shed any light , as to why this happens.
Tom who was a little incapacitated this morning wanted to knowhow
to increase the voice speed on his voice dreamer app.
Go into the voice dreamer settings, and go to Audio, then voice
speed, this is a slider, where one can increase or decrease the
speed of the voice.
Albert supplied this help for Tom.
Vera was having an automatic update to her I POD, but it
terminated before finishing, and left her with a peculiar screen.
The status bar instead of being at the top of the screen was at
the bottom.
Eamonn /Bert suggested several key strokes that might fix this
problem.
But the advice at the end was for Vera, to shut down her laptop,
and power on later, and see if this fixes the problem.
Paul also suggested that she could do a manual upgrade for her
machine, and see if this restores her laptop to the correct
orientation.
Eamon wanted to know how to change the voice for your phone.
Albert said go to settings, general, accessability then voice
over, and finally speech.
Here you will find many different voices , Paul uses Daniel, Bert
uses Alex, and our Ladies man Cearbhall uses Moira !!
Before you download the voice of your choice, one can get a sample
of the various voices , and listen to a few minutes of their tone
and delivery.
At this time, Martin interjected with a question, what do you call
a blind reindeer?
Answer: NO IDEAR !!!The folk in Kildare are a funny lot.
Paudi is going to Belfast for the RNIB, exhibition of their
products for the visually impaired.
It’s being held in the Europa hotel this Wednesday, and Paudi has
promised to give all a first hand account of the show.
Bert told us that Microsoft are introducing a co pilot (robot),
for Windows 11 and he thinks that they are going to charge 20$
for those who are going to use it for business.
That’s all Folks
Paul
