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October 04, 2016 Talking Tech 4th October 2016

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Thing That I have been Waiting a Long Time For!!!

You

can now check the battery status on your iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch using

Siri: no more “look at the screen”.

Product Overview of my De’Longhi PrimaDonna Elite Touch Coffee Machine

This

is a fairly pricey automated coffee machine which grinds your coffee beans and

makes a range of coffees costing several thousand dollars, but the reason why I

purchased it for my new kitchen was that it is app controlled from my

iPhone. Here are a few points on my experience with the machine so far.

Challenges

Requires

sighted assistance to setup as part of the setup process is to use the touch

screen for set language, check the milk container, water tank etc.

Setting

up the app on my iPhone required sighted assistance as some of the pop up

Windows for pairing the machine were not accessible.

had to turn off Energy Saving mode and have the.machine on all of the time as

the wake machine from stand by is not accessible with VoiceOver which mostly

works. However, one way around this on all the time can be managed by

having the machine turn itself on at different times for the day and you can

set how long it will stay on for which is what I have done: e.g. on at 6AM, off

at 8AM, on at 5Pm, and off at 7PM.

The

cup warning message (i.e. have you put your cup under the spout) I had to turn

off as this popup window wasn’t accessible with voiceOver.

Some

of the other app functions are not accessible such as the statistics for the

machine.

What

worked

Can

run the app most of the time (i.e. not get locked out by inaccessible windows),

select my particular type of coffee, and have the machine make it for me.

The

warning messages concerning empty water tank, clean the milk dispenser are

accessible: haven’t come across other warning messages yet.

can put beans in the hopper, water in the tank, and milk in the dispenser

without any issues.

Switching

the Milk dispenser to different froth levels via the rotor dial and flushing

the dispenser is all doable.

Emptying

the drip tray with the accompanying bean grounds container is very

straightforward.

Keeping

the machine clean is fairly easy.

Info

from the De’Longhi website:

http://www.delonghi.com/en-int/products/coffee/primadonna-elite/primadonna-elite-ecam-645075ms

The

De’Longhi Coffee Link app: here

Good

News: All Vision Australia Staff Now Have Macs Running Windows 10

of the last week in September, All Accessibility Technology staff at Vision

Australia now have a MacBook Air running Mac OS Sierra sand Windows 10.

This almost completes VA’s refresh of the tech staff tech tool kit allowing us

to cover Windows, Mac, Android and iOS.

JaWS

18 Public Beta Has Been Around For A While Now

New

features include:

Migrate

settings from previous settings of JaWS,

Export

and import JAWS settings,

Restrict

JAWS virtual cursor in web dialog box’s,

Echo

mouse with speech and cursor is moved around the screen,

Improvements

to JaWS touch support, and

Launch

JaWS on tablets using hardware buttons.

https://www.freedomscientific.com/Downloads/Jaws/JawsPublicBeta

Update On My Recent Podcasts

I’ve

done a quick series on Apple Watch os v3,and using Siri on the Mac with Mac OS

Sierra.

http://davidwoodbr.podbean.com

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