[fb-exchange] Re: meeting april 29th 2013
- From: Marc Mc Donald <marcglenarm@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: fb-exchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:31:07 +0100
Many thanks for all the great, friendly help yesterday. Very useful it was
and I just downloaded the Magic coloured cursors and will see how it goes,
Marc
On Apr 30, 2013 8:29 AM, "tony sweeney" <deirton711@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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