In Attendance via Zoom
Declan Meenagh FB
Tina Leonard FB
Noreen Meagher -Limerick
Tom Langan -Galway
Paul Griffith -Dublin
Tom O' Neill -Dublin
Cearbhaill o'Meadhra - Mayo
Jackie Mc Brearty - Sligo
Monique Parnis -Dublin
Joe Murphy -Dublin
John Chambers -Wicklow
Bob Corazza -Dublin
Michael Lavin -Dublin
Martin Kelly -Kildare
Martha Parkinson -Cork
Bert Brown -Dublin
Joanne Gorman -Cavan
Joan Kearns -Dublin
Martin Lawlor -Dublin
Michael Griffith -Dublin
Eamon O'Connor/Dublin
Annette McCarthy /Wicklow
Michael Lavin asked for help in using u tube, and Bert told us of a brilliant
app called Pontis-media-downloader , which can copy files from u tube and store
them in its own site for playback at a later date.
Jackie found the Voice Dream Scanner superior to the KNFB READER. After
trying it out over the weekend.
Tom Langan wanted to know if Alexa can play podcasts, and if so what can she
play?
Again Bert came to the rescue, if you ask Alexa to play by saying Alexa
enable any pod,
Then you can ask for a particular podcast.
There was a lengthy discussion on navigation apps, like Moveit, and a new one
from Microsoft called sound scape, its only available for users who have an uk
address, it envolves glasses which are connected to your smart phone.
The consensus was that Blind square was the est navigation app for vip's.
Cearbhall downloaded the latest version of nvda (non visual desktop access)
But he is getting a very annoying bleeping sound, advice given to him from
varying members was to remove this version and download again.
Voice dream reader was invented by a person who wanted to help people who
suffered from Dyslexia this probably explains why the scanner is so good.
There was some great information from Declan probed by questions from
Cearbhall on Chrome casting,
Paul asked what were the best smart tv sets for vip's,
People suggested Panasonic and the latest Samsung sets. People can find videos
on utub and cast them to view on their smart tv sets.
Joanne Gorman who primarily uses Zoomtext, wondered if she could benefit from
Jaws, but Zoomtext is a screen reader as well,
the basic version of Zoomtext is a magnification programme, allowing the user
to
increase the magnification to suit their reading abilities. But other
versions of Zoomtext have sound as well.
Regards
Paul
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