Well done, Jakcie, a very interesting meeting!
All the best,
Cearbhall
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Welcome aboard the Saturday Technology cruise liner. We had 10 sailors aboard
today.
We had apologies.
We also wish our resident Blind Tennis Champion, Stuart, the best of luck in
the nationals today. We also wish Martin the best of luck for his Tennis
nationals matches. Do us proud, boys.
We spoke about various ways of contacting call centres from the likes of Sky
and Vodafone. A log of people spoke about the positive way Sky operates with
their Be My Eyes support and their direct disability line. This is the number
for Sky’s disability dedicated line: (081) 871 9809.
Paul spoke about fighting with Toby, the virtual assistant, in Vodafone when he
finally got through to sort out an issue he was having in asking Siri to send
text messages or WhatsApp messages. The human agent in Vodafone told him to go
into settings, general, Transfer or Reset iPhone, reset, and then reset network
settings. This worked for Paul and all is good in the camp again.
Jackie told us this morning about her negative experience using Google Maps as
a navigational tool. An article came out in the NCBI Technology newsletter
about turning on some accessibility feature in Google Maps. Jackie turned this
on and tested it this morning. Jackie reported, “it was useless, it was sending
me the most difficult way to reach an easy destination,” and this has
completely put her off using this app in the future. Anne-Marie agreed about
Google Maps and sending a person the most difficult way. Jackie always uses
blindSquare in times of lostness and has no complaints. this is the article.
https://vi.ie/how-to-turn-on-detailed-voice-guidance-for-vision-impaired-users-in-google-maps/
Adrian spoke about trying out the describe scenes in both Seeing AI and
Envision AI. This feature would be like the description in Be My Eyes. We all
think it’s positive that there is so much choice out there for describing
photos and things in the world.
Dominique was asking about connecting the BBC Sounds skill to her Alexa. After
a bit of back and forth, we realized Dominique needs to set up an account in
the BBC Sounds app and then connect that to Alexa in the Skills and Games
section. When searching for a skill in Alexa, just double tap and hold with one
finger, and this will activate the edit field. This is the app link for the BBC
Sounds.
https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/bbc-sounds/id1380676511
We spoke about the Journal app and how since the latest update, the “read
full article with VoiceOver” no longer works. A number of people reported it to
the Journal people: however, swiping through the article works a little better
than before. Paul uses the swipe down with two fingers. To report something
directly from the app, do the following: Go to settings and then Send feedback
about the app. A little update in researching this piece: double-tapping on
“read full article with VoiceOver” now works. So anyone who experienced issues,
try it out. An update must have come down more recently.
A conversation happened around the Audible app and deleting books from your
downloads folder. This saves storage for some people but for others, it didn’t
work. The meeting continued, but my notes ended as I had to deal with a matter
with my dog.
All have a good rest of the day. Lady W PS: Android got a few positive words
today.
