Excellent notes Cearbhall
Eamonn on your revolut issue I never received a text but i did get
notifications from the app. I get these notifications on my watch and phone.
Check in settings and notifications that you've allowed notifications on the
app.
Jackie
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On 2 May 2022, at 3:18 p.m., Cearbhall O'Meadhra <cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx>===========================================================
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In attendance: 9 participants.
Martin reported on the presentation of the work of Patrick Graham delivered
at the online Audio Description tour of the Hugh Lane Gallery on Zoom.
He enjoyed a full one hour interview that gave him a good insight into the
work of the artist.
Eamonn wondered if Revolut has stopped sending out a text message which he
used to receive for any physical use of the Revolut card. He has not received
any message for some time.
As nobody present uses the revolut card this had to be adjourned for further
investigation and report.
Martin raised the serious question of what a blind person can do if a
premises does not take cards but insist on cash. Involving other customers
who might have cash was not acceptable as a solution.
Martin announced the forthcoming walk in Dundalk, staying at the carrick
dale hotel for a fantastic weekend. Still places available.
The question of when and how headings can and should be used in documentation
came up for discussion. Cearbhall described the WAI Guidelines of the World
Wide Web consortium as the best source of the use of headings.
The Immersive Reader was introduced to most of us for the first time. Stuart
quickly discovered that it is available in the View menu in Microsoft Word.
It is a significant reading tool that adjusts font size and colour, line
spacing , line length and removes unnecessary carriage returns to make visual
reading easier. It also carries "Read aloud" witch employs Microsoft's
synthesised voices to read the text for those who cannot or prefer not to
read visually.
Martin reported that he could not get Immersive reader to speak in English
but apparently this can be changed under languages in settings within
Immersive Reader.
Tom finds that Blind Square is not giving him street names any more. Earlier
versions of the app did provide this feature. Cearbhall agreed and said that
he also finds Blind Square reluctant to name streets preferring to call out
buildings and shops.
Microsoft's Soundscape was suggested. Again a visit to Rome recently revealed
that Soundscape was so busy calling out physical buildings that the
information was too much to take in as the user walks along. Soundscape did,
however, report when approaching junctions and describe and named each road
left, right and forward which might well meet the need that Tom was looking
for.
Google maps "Step by Step" was mentioned as another option that might b
useful.
Vera and Annette had issues relating to Apple cloud storage. Annette found
that restoring her iPhone, after installing an IOS upgrade, brought in a load
of old email and phone addresses that had not been seen for years and had not
been in the phone prior to the update. This needed further investigation but
it was suggested that the restoration of the phone after the IOS installation
might have brought in the entire Cloud backup file. Keeping an eye on the
backup material by going into iCloud on the web would enable checking the
contents under the Apple User name and password.
Vera has and old iPad which contains many photos that she wants to keep and
remove from the iPad before she disposes of it. Questions of how best to
transfer photos from the old iPad to the current one went unanswered. Vera
will investigate and report on her progress.
This information might be useful: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204570
Also:
tech support apple care, Ireland: 1800 80 4062
The meeting Ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
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