[fb-exchange] Re: meeting april 29th 2013
- From: "Dominique Farrell" <hollyandopal@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <fb-exchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:08:36 +0100
You're more than welcome Marc! And it was good to have a new addition,.
You're welcome to our list and group. Good to meet you!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Mc Donald" <marcglenarm@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <fb-exchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 9:31 AM
Subject: [fb-exchange] Re: meeting april 29th 2013
> 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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