[fb-exchange] Re: meeting april 29th 2013
- From: "tony sweeney" <deirton711@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <fb-exchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:29:41 +0100
And well done to you too Paul.
These updates are great especially for those of us who cannot for whatever
reason be in attendance.
Tony Sweeney
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From: "Paul F. Griffith" <paulfgriffith@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <fb-exchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 7:26 PM
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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