Ways to join a Zoom meeting
Mar. 20th, 2020 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kestrellThis article
https://www.howtogeek.com/662339/how-to-join-a-zoom-meeting/
lists multiple ways to join a Zoom meeting.
However, I've found that using my PC involves tweaking way too many settings, so instead have whoever sets up the meeting send me a text with the OneTap link in it.
Troubleshooting I have had to figure out so far:
1. Sometimes if the person sending the text includes other text, aside from the link, in the text, it makes it difficult for me to click on the link.
2. Sometimes when I get into the meeting, Voiceover says that I am muted and it doesn't matter how many times I use the unmute command of *6, I just get repeatedly muted, and at some point my onscreen keyboard gets dimmed and I can't get it undimmed to unmute.
I haven't found a way to tweak the keyboard dimming setting, so every few minutes I flip my phone up and then back down to the horizontal position, which refreshes the keyboard.
There has to be a better way to accomplish this but, since I am using Voiceover, it changes many of the default commands, so it's difficult to find troubleshooting fixes that also work with Voiceover.
Many users who are more confident using an iPhone turn Voiceover off while using other apps, but I'm not at that level yet.
Finally, let me once more plug the national Braille Press nbp.org for providing a pile of technology guides for blind and low-vision users. Anna Dresner's books, in particular, are both detailed and clearly written, and you will definitely get your money's worth from any of her guides.
Note that, although it is called the "Braille" Press, you can get these guides in all sort of accessible formats, including Daisy, and that you can buy these books already loaded ona thumb drive so that you just plug them into whatever device you use to read your books.
https://www.howtogeek.com/662339/how-to-join-a-zoom-meeting/
lists multiple ways to join a Zoom meeting.
However, I've found that using my PC involves tweaking way too many settings, so instead have whoever sets up the meeting send me a text with the OneTap link in it.
Troubleshooting I have had to figure out so far:
1. Sometimes if the person sending the text includes other text, aside from the link, in the text, it makes it difficult for me to click on the link.
2. Sometimes when I get into the meeting, Voiceover says that I am muted and it doesn't matter how many times I use the unmute command of *6, I just get repeatedly muted, and at some point my onscreen keyboard gets dimmed and I can't get it undimmed to unmute.
I haven't found a way to tweak the keyboard dimming setting, so every few minutes I flip my phone up and then back down to the horizontal position, which refreshes the keyboard.
There has to be a better way to accomplish this but, since I am using Voiceover, it changes many of the default commands, so it's difficult to find troubleshooting fixes that also work with Voiceover.
Many users who are more confident using an iPhone turn Voiceover off while using other apps, but I'm not at that level yet.
Finally, let me once more plug the national Braille Press nbp.org for providing a pile of technology guides for blind and low-vision users. Anna Dresner's books, in particular, are both detailed and clearly written, and you will definitely get your money's worth from any of her guides.
Note that, although it is called the "Braille" Press, you can get these guides in all sort of accessible formats, including Daisy, and that you can buy these books already loaded ona thumb drive so that you just plug them into whatever device you use to read your books.
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Date: 2020-03-20 04:36 pm (UTC)Yes, the NBP books are great: they explain just what you need.
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Date: 2020-03-20 05:41 pm (UTC)How are you doing?
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Date: 2020-03-20 06:15 pm (UTC)I've been experimenting with hands-free Voice Control in iOS and macOS, and it's amusing. I've set my phone to respond to "Hey Siri" hands-free, while my iPad requires me to hold down the home button, and my Mac lets me "type to Siri" with the keyboard. Still and all, several times I've heard Siri piping up on the wrong device. When Siri responds aurally Voice Control sometimes types what she says (if focus is on a text area). I can't imagine what havoc combining VO and Voice Control would create.
No conclusion yet -- I'm a rank beginner, and I've not yet located a Voice Control Users Group with the utility of AppleVis.
Health wise I'm pretty good. I sway between All the Anxiety and frankly cheerful. The latter is because suddenly the entire world is operating at disabled-at-home pace, and I like it! Fortunately I have no immune issues except reactive airways, so I'm blithely unconcerned about actually getting sick. MyGuy is also healthy and my Bella is finally better, so I feel solidly supported.
How's Alexx's recuperation going?
Do you have enough to read?
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Date: 2020-03-20 07:11 pm (UTC)I have so much to read! I've been getting addicted to my Kindle, which has a pretty amazing screen reader, and lately I've begun listening to audiobooks available through NLS. They are now distributing commercial audiobooks, so they are pretty good plus, I've realized that most sf sounds better in audio format, as even a good screen reader typically has trouble with madeup words.
I read _Sourdough_, which is about a tech worker who inherits a sourdough starter which then begins to thrive and possibly aspire to taking over San Francisco. Great narrator, very funny.
I also read _Space Opera_, by Catherynne Valente, which had another great narrator, who did dry British humor extremely well, and it's another silly book.
Glad that Alexx continues to heal
Date: 2020-03-20 07:42 pm (UTC)SOURDOUGH!
Great minds think alike, I was just copying out something uplifting from Robin Sloan's monthly newsletter.
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I don’t like the “breathless creative exhortation” genre any more than you do, but, I have spared you for enough years that I think I’ve stored up some credit: which I will now spend.
We’re entering a stretch during which no subject, no task, other than this pandemic and its prevention will seem to “matter,” and I am here to insist, as you contemplate the next level of the video game you were building, the next stitch in the fanny pack you were designing, the next edition of the newsletter you just started:
It matters.
The diagnostic tool is straightforward: Do you want every glorious weirdo you’ve ever followed to morph into the same obsessive faux public health expert? YOU DO NOT!
I’m writing this as much to myself as to you.
Every calamity fractures the world, opens new seams: many economic, some political, still others aesthetic.
In 1816, the gloomy “Year Without a Summer,” Mary Shelley stayed indoors at a lakeside hotel; not quarantine, but maybe quarantine-adjacent. There, bored and haunted, she conceived the story that would grow into her novel Frankenstein, the foundation stone of the genre we now call science fiction.
It’s moderately annoying when people invoke work like that, because it feels like the implication is, if you’re not writing Frankenstein what are you even DOING? That’s not what I mean. It’s just that the big, bright examples help us see it clearly: toil in the shadow of calamity will have its day.
Toil in the shadow of calamity WILL have its day.
A crack in everything; that’s how the art gets in.
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full post
https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletter/march-2020/