thanks for your notes LW
REGARDS
Stuart
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On 12 Mar 2022, at 13:30, Jackie McBrearty <teambanglesltd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Lady W has mounted her side saddle to bring you all through the Cork Tech
Club. there was 13 people in attendance.
Joanne was asking what is the number to TopUp using a voucher with
vodafone. the number is 1741, She was having issues topping up using the
vodafone app. Jackie said its easy to go through the banking app as well.
We then praised and slated phone companies so for the purposes of not having
a defamation case put against me this will remain unreported.
Jackie told us all about having the opportunity to try out the Envision
Glasses as part of her work with the Irish Guide Dogs. Jackie is the
Assistive Technology officer on the new Employment Vision Program. When
Jackie got them she firstly needed to pair them with the envision app she had
on her iPhone. This was a fairly easy process much like setting up an Alexa.
So once paired Jackie set to work trying all the features of these glasses.
There is a quick read feature, a scan feature, identifier, this can identify
money, colours, light sources and products and then there is call an Ally.
The feature jackie liked the most was call an ally, she asked her sister to
download the app Envision Ally and sign up, this meant Jackie could call her
sister and then her sister could see through the camera on the glasses.
All in all Jackie wasn't over whelmed with the glasses accept for the call an
ally. As this meant she didn't have to use her phone and her hands were free
to do other stuff.
you can find more information about the envision glasses at this link:
https://www.letsenvision.com/envision-glasses ;
The Echo show is also great for doing video calls to get assistance with
stuff with a friend or family member. The echo show also has the feature of
Show and Tell, which means you ask Alexa what your holding and it should tell
you. Jackie uses this feature with some success.
Martin also told us about Alexa being able to translate English into Irish
and this was tested with great success.
Martin asked about the NCBI smart hub.
This is what NCBI said about it:
Thank you to those who tested and provided feedback while myNCBI Smart Hub
was still in development. We hope you and everyone else can provide more
feedback,
We are currently in a “soft launch” phase, which means while it is live it is
still being tested and we are testing this live environment. We would love
your help with testing before we launch the myNCBI Smart Hub officially.
Feedback is imperative to providing a great experience to all users, and we
would like to ask you to test out all the features and let us know what you
think.
If anyone has feedback fill out this form:
https://bit.ly/3sNr0Y5
Clare was telling us an amazing story about the Starbucks at the Bus Station
in Galway. When she went in the person serving her took her phone and
connected the starbucks app to the Menu so she was able to read everything
on the menu, it also enabled clare to order and if she had her visa card in
the wallet she could have also paid. The service seems to get even better as
if you come into the shop again this alerts the staff that a visually
impaired person has entered the store. We did ask other starbucks fans and
they haven't heard of this. So well done to Starbucks in Galway for this
accessible piece of ingenuity. As they also appear to be able to work with
voiceover on, this on its own requires a gold star.
The new SE3 was discussed so we all wait to hear how this phone compares to
the other SE models.
Jackie was telling us about the Hable1 challenge from sight and sound. The
challenge involves getting a hable1 braille bluetooth keyboard for two weeks,
in these two weeks you have to activally use it and report back. You can get
more information at the below link.
https://www.sightandsound.co.uk/hable-1-challenge-sign-up-form/
The topic of Electric Scooters came up and we all spoke of near misses but
clare told us of being struck by one in Galway and she was dragged accross
the road. We all hope the government take the advice seriously that they are
getting from IGDB, NCBI and IWA
The meeting ended with the thoughts of ancient rolls.
I'm off to Galway and visit starbucks and try out this excellent service.
Roll on a hot chocolate.
Lady W
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