[fb-exchange] Re: meeting april 29th 2013
- From: "Eleanor Burke" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "fb-exchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <fb-exchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:36:25 +0000
Hi Paul and All
to help Mark there are very large mouse pointers which were recommended to me
years, they all come in different colours. Just Google Philips large mouse
pointers and download and install a colour of your choice. They are free. Magic
is good as made by same company as JAWS but it is very expensive. I use
Supernova which comprises speech and magnification. Not sure if Magic runs in
demo 40 minute mode but at least Mark was able to benefit from the
magnification of Windows 7.
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From: Paul F. Griffith
Sent: 29/04/2013, 7:26 pm
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Subject: [fb-exchange] meeting april 29th 2013
IN ATTENDENCE:
Dominique Farrell: Mary Lavelle:
Marty Bourne: Cearbhall O'Meadhra:
Paul Griffith:
and welcome to a new member,
Marc McDonnell:
Our newest member had a new notebook/tablet with him, where
the arrow keys were not divided from the other keys as was the case with a
previous laptop,
and he had difficulty in finding them and accessing them with ease.
Paul suggested that he use some bumpber stickers to help him find the keys
easier, and some were found on the premises, and proved a great help to Marc.
Cearghall suggested in just using one, and a suitable key was selected to
give the greatest benefit in locating these arrow keys.
Also the icon for the Jaws software appeared on Marc's desktop, it was not
working, as the installation
carried out by his friend was not fully installed.
Cearbhall decided to install jaws in demo mode , which lasts for about 40
minutes.
Marc found that the sound was muted, and when he changed this by hitting
the spacebar, the sound came on, to help navigation.
Marc has a great deal of central vision, and is reluctant to depend on jaws at
this stage,
so unticked the box , which has jaws coming on automatically.
Marc explained that he had difficulty sometimes in finding the cursor, so Paul
suggested that software like magic specialises in enhancing the size of the
mouse, change its colour and so forth.
Under instructions from Cearbhall, Marc decided to see if theoptions
in windows 7 , to do this, and found
that he could change the size of his mouse pointer, its colour, and had a line
darting out to show the location of the cursor, and that this line disappeared
as soom as he began typing again. Cearbhall had helped Marc to use eloquence
as the default voice for jaws.
so Marc was happy that he found in display/apearance the options
to bespoke his mouse pointer.
Marty has threatened to bring in her laptop and mp3 player, and demonstrate
them to the group next time.
we all look forward to learning from Marty.
Today was a good meeting as Marc's problems related to accessing his arrow keys
better, and creating a pointer trail for his mouse ,
it seems that both of these problems were resolved.
well done everybody.
paul griffith april 29th 2013
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