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Subject: [fb-exchange] Cork Meeting 26th November 2022
cork 26/11/2022
participants 8
Apologies: Ken and Derry.
The meeting opened with congratulations to our champion blind Tennis player,
Stuart who won 2 matches in the international British Visually Impaired
Tennis Nationals in Wales.
We look forward to further great results in The IBSA World Games, an
international multi-sport event for athletes with visual impairments, TO BE
HELD IN Birmingham NEXT YEAR.
Jackie has purchased and new Echo Dot after being jostled into it by
Dominique.
She found a voice which is supposed to have an Irish Accent but the accent
sounds more British than Irish. However, it is a very clear voice and is
happy to speak certain Irish idioms. There followed a competition to see
whether the echo Dot would pronounce unusual words correctly. the female
voice did brilliantly but the male voice failed miserably until words were
articulated carefully by the person challenging him. He was then able to get
the spelling right but spoke very slowly in doing so.
Stuart has become the proud owner of an Apple MacBook. He finds the
Voiceover similar to that in IOS but the keyboard commands are still a bit
confusing.
As he only received the MacBook a few days ago, we look forward to further
reports on his progress. He finds the device very fast and quiet compared to
the laptop. Voiceover uses the combined control and option keys, known as
the VO keys in combination with various keys to operate the program. Unlike
the IOS devices, the MacBook uses a physical built-in keyboard rather than a
touch screen. There is an accompanying touch pad that can be used as an
alternative to the keyboard.
Jackie reported a very encouraging conversation with the Bank of Ireland
with regard to making the app more accessible. The assistant reassured her
that he would remain available to continue discussions with her and assured
her that the developers were taking her complaints seriously. Well done,
Jackie!
She noted that AIB is not greater either. Particularly when trying to
retrieve details of an account. The Iban number is found under a purely
graphic symbol that Voiceover cannot reach. Jackie was only able to find the
graphic by using Screen Recognition and sighted guidance to activate the
button.
The meeting agreed that Revolut is the best service for accessibility. Even
so, it is hard to find transactions in the app.
Chris tried to reach NCBI to query the award made to An Post in the light of
their very poor record in supporting a claim of some 14 years duration with
no hope of resolution. However, he has received no reply to his emails.
Martin is delighted with the BlindShell phone. It has a slot in the back for
an extra memory card and two SIM card slots.
Jackie has modernised her kitchen with a new bleeping 4-drawer cabinet
freezer that bleeps when she leaves the door open too long. This is really
useful as it is easy to leave the door open when you cannot see it!
Apple TV+ is a free app available for devices running IOS 12 or higher.
Members agreed that the basic shows are not worth spending time on. Every
show incurs a fee that must be paid in order to view. The app is annoyingly
full of ads that make it more trouble than it is worth.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apple-tv/id1174078549
YouTube is also full of ads. Stuart has an excellent solution to recommend.
He uses AdGuard to block ads. Simply open the show you want to watch on
YouTube and then go to Share and click on @View with AdGuard@ and all ads
are gone? It costs about 5eur per annum to subscribe to AdGuard.
More details can be read at:
https://adguard.com/en/adguard-ios/overview.html
Martin recommended a series of books on YouTube called "Rul Galaxy". This
shows a choice of different audio books streamed on YouTube. Further details
here: https://www.youtube.com/c/RULGALAXY
Cearbhall reported a difficulty detecting whether the room lights at home
are on or off. He tried the light detection in Microsoft Seeing AI without
success. The app maintained a continuous shrill tone whether the light was
on or off.
Joanne suggested that the torch might have been turned on. She suggested
setting notifications to "torch light is on" in Voiceover settings.
Jackie had a problem with keyboard settings that prevented her from typing
letters with the sine fada on the PC. Cearbhall found that the problem was
caused by an incorrect language setting. The following instructions should
help to fix the problem:
Windows+i (pressed together not separately)to open settings;
Tab once to the list which starts with "system" and arrow eight times to the
right for "Time and Language" and press enter;
In "Time and language", tab once to the list of options starting with "Date
and time" and press down-arrow until you reach "region" and press enter;
select (Ireland" if it is not already selected;
Go back out to "time and Language" and press down-arrow to "Language" and
press enter;
In "Language", press tab once to show your current language.
If this is not showing "English(Ireland)" then press enter on it and arrow
through the resulting list of languages until you find English(Ireland).
That should now enable the acute characters with right alt-gr and the lower
case vowel or uppercase vowel with the alt-gr and shift key with each vowel.
The meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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