Paul it's the day before, Tuesday 21st. Alexa must be suffering from old age!
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Well it's the penultimate winter day, as Winter officially ends tomorrow.
Of course we can get Winter weather up to April or even May.
There were 11 Participants for today's meeting.
Welcome back to Albert.
Bert reported when using NVDA, he does not get the little music jingle which
comes on as soon as you use the keys, control,Alt and letter n.
Cearbhall demonstrated this by using those keys to start up NVDA, and the
music jingle came on to tell him that NVDA was ready to use.
Bert said that there was something written on his screen as he started up NVDA,
and perhaps this was a statement to say if he wants the music played.
Bert wil check further to see whats happening, and report back.
Bert also said that when he receives a text message on whats app, like a
photograph with text, when ge goes to find out what the text/photograph is all
about, he has to first go through a number of his contacts.
To fix this problem, he went to settings, siri, and stopped suggestions from
siri.
There was a lot of talk, on OKO, This is a new development by a guy in Belgium
working with the European blind union.
It's an app which tells a vision impaired person whether the lights, are green
or red, and if it's safe to cross at the traffic lights.
This app will work without an internet connection. A meeting will commence
shortly with this tech guy to investigat if it could be used in Ireland like
in the city of Cork.
This app is used already in the Benelux countries as well as in Japan.
Marian had a question , she has a new Tesco phone and when she rings her number
which is an 089 number from her landline she cannot find out if she has any
messages.
Cearbhall told her to call 171 on her phone, and this brought up the usual
options, , listen to your messages,create a new answering message and so on.
There were also options to ring the Tesco help line for technological
questions. .
Perhaps a form of call answering needs to be set up between her landlind and
her new phone.
Cearbhall told us of his experience of joining the Vision sports group in
Shankill, to learn and get lessons in taking up the game of Blind Tennis.
Several questions were asked and answered by Stuart and Cearbhall, and it seems
like a great sport.
Well done Cearbhall. Perhaps Annette will take up the sport as well as she
used to play Tennis a number of years ago.
Bert said that a number of people were complaining that they could no longer
use the Audible app with Victor Stream.
Some big names were leading the protest now,
And we await developments.
Eamonn left his old Laptop into Back to the Future for an upgrade.
But when he got it back, he cannot locate his MY DOCUMENTS folder.
Several angles were suggested by Cearbhall, Michael and Bert, but in the end,
it was suggested that he ring the shop or go in to get the answer as where the
Documents has disappeared to,
Good luck Eamonn.
On a lighter note , Paul asked Alexa when is Pancake Tuesday, and she replied,
Shrove Tuesday is on Wednesday February 22nd, !!!
You cannot
believe women these days!That's all folks
Paul
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