Hi, all. David, thanks for all you do to keep this list going. I am
the least technologically savvy member of it, and don't have much in
the way of technology. Consequently, I screen articles and other
info, reading some, deleting others unread. Thanks so much for this
opportunity to be informed, and for the Friday-night call-ins. Keep
up the good work!
Jan
On 7/4/18, Kimberly Starrett <kstarrett5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I enjoy the articles, David. Frequently they are things I haven’t seenYou are invited to visit the moderator's Web site at WWW.DavidGoldfield.Info
elsewhere which increases their value to me as a user of adaptive tech and
an all-around geek.
From: blind-philly-comp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-philly-comp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David
Goldfield
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2018 12:21 PM
To: blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-philly-comp] Quick Updates
1. I wanted to wish all of you a happy and blessed Independence Day.
2. I have not forgotten about our phone meetings. Our next meeting is
scheduled for Friday, July 27 at 8:00 PM and is open to any questions or
comments relating to technology.
3. As always, please don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have comments
or questions regarding our group. If you have ideas for guest presenters or
if you feel you might want to present a particular product or service please
let me know about it. I would respectfully ask that any questions of a
technical nature about technology be directed publicly to the list at
blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
and not to me privately. If your question goes to the list other people can
respond, especially since I often don't have the time that I'd like to
personally respond to emails. Also, the fact is that I simply don't know
everything and there are many on this list with expertise on products or
apps that I just don't have.
4. I'd be curious to know if this mailing list is meeting your needs and, if
not, what could be done to have it do so? As an example, are the articles
that I send out of value or would you prefer the list to just be dedicated
to discussion without the articles? If you do like reading articles, are
there topics you'd like to see more of or less of?
5. Depending on which email program you use you may have to perform a "reply
all" if you want your replies to a message to be sent to the list. A few
months back Thunderbird made an annoying change which meant that pressing
ctrl+R to reply to a list message would send your reply to just the original
sender and not to the list. One workaround for this is to press ctrl+shift+R
(for Reply All) which should guarantee that you reply will go to the list.
There is a slightly more technical workaround which can force Thunderbird to
revert to the older and, in my opinion, more preferred way where just
pressing ctrl+R sends a reply from a mailing list to the entire list, which
is, I think, what most people expect. Off the top of my head I don't
remember the exact set of steps I used to adjust this setting but, if you
run into this issue, let me know and I'll try and post them. I think users
of Outlook should be OK but I can't speak for other email programs.
6. As always, if you know someone who could benefit from this list don't
hesitate to provide them with the information on how to join the list. To
subscribe, the email address is
blind-philly-comp-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:blind-philly-comp-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In the subject type
subscribe
and then send the message.
There are just so many mailing lists out there dealing with various types of
assistive technology and, to be frank, I'm wondering if this list is still
relevant. Initially, I started this as a group for people in or near the
Philly area because it was my assumption that a city as big as Philly needed
a support group for visually impaired computer users. That still may be the
case but I'm just trying to ascertain this. You can be as honest as you want
to about this as I don't have an ego when it comes to this group. If it's
meeting people's needs then it will continue. If it isn't I have no problem
in seeing it go away because, as I said, there are many discussion groups
dealing with technology both in general and lists dedicated to a specific
product.
Take care.
--
David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist WWW.David-Goldfield.Com
<http://WWW.David-Goldfield.Com>
