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This is Debbie Armstrong. I am the education chair for BITS, Blind Information Technology Specialists. Every second and fourth Saturday we host Basics with Bits. Except that this fourth Saturday, which is the 25th of May, due to the Memorial Day weekend we will not be hosting anything so y’all can go out and have fun and not worry about missing us. Our next presentation will be June 8th, and I have several people lined up who are wanting to be our presenter, so it’ll be a surprise for all of us. Anyway, today we’re going to hear from David Kingsbury, and he’s going to be talking to us about the Google Calendar. So take it away, David. Okay, thank you, and good afternoon, everybody. Well, for me, it’s afternoon anyways. It’s a rainy Sunday in the Boston area, so it’s a great day to do computer-type stuff. I have, over the years, oh, there’s my phone going off. All right. Over the years, I’ve used both the Outlook calendar and the Google calendar, and I’ve really come to prefer the Google calendar for a couple of reasons. First off, as somebody who teaches this stuff, I think it’s easier, just more intuitive to learn. There’s just a handful of keystrokes that are pretty intuitive. Once you know those, you can really do pretty much all that you need to do. I also find that in navigating around in it, it’s pretty lean and mean. It sort of tells you when you’re using a screen reader like JAWS or NVDA, the things you need to know and not a whole lot more. By contrast, Outlook’s not that hard to learn, but the keystrokes aren’t really quite as intuitive. And the one thing that does drive me a bit crazy about Outlook is it talks too much. There are times when I just wanted to say, you know, would you just shut up and tell me what I need to know and not all this extra garbage? So I’m going to share my screen now. And what we’re going to do first is I’m going to talk to you about how Google Calendar works on the computer, on the PC. And then after we talk about that, maybe have a few questions. And then I’ll, on my iPhone, go through the things that you need to check out to make sure that your two calendars are synced. And having those synced is very nice because I’m not always on my computer. My iPhone is always with me. And it’s very nice to be able to add events on both of those devices and be able to find them on both of them at pretty much any time. So without further ado, let me start up my screen share. Screen sharing meeting controls. Okay, and you should be hearing my screen okay. Now, Google Calendar is accessed fully online. So the first thing you need to do on your PC is to open up a web browser. Now, I’m going to use Google Chrome, but it really doesn’t matter which one you use because pretty much all the keystrokes we’re going to go through are either Google keystrokes. When I say Google, I don’t mean Google Chrome. They’re just Google keystrokes or JAWS NVDA keystrokes. and not at all dependent on what browser you’re using. So I’m going to open up Chrome from a desktop. Windows M desktop folder view list G Google Chrome 6 enter. Address and search bar edit blank type and text control plus L. And I land right on the address bar and I’m going to type in here calendar. Google.com. That’s how we get in. See calendar.google.com/calendar/r. calendar.google.com/calendar/r selected. Now, I’ve been going in here frequently as of late, so I only had to type C to do that. You’ll probably have to type the full calendar.google.com. But after you use it a while, it will be a bit like what I just said there. I’ll hit enter to get in. Enter. Calendar.google.com slash calendar slash U slash zero slash R. Carol Center for the blind dash calendar dash Google Chrome dash David left parent person Carol Center for the blind. And that’s blabbing around, blabbing quite a bit. This is my work calendar. And that’s the one I’m going to use. Now, with many Google applications, there are a number of native Google keystrokes. That is keystrokes that are only used by Google. And that is the case with the calendar here. When you come in to a web page with JAWS, you come in with what is called the virtual PC cursor turned on. The NVDA equivalent is browse mode. You need to turn those off, and that’s the first thing you need to do so that you can access those keystrokes. Now, with JAWS, the keystroke to toggle the virtual PC cursor off. And by the way, having the virtual PC cursor on or the NVDA browse mode, that’s what enables you to hit certain keystrokes like H to jump to headings, E to jump to edit boxes. B to jump to buttons and so on. Those things don’t exist for sighted people. That’s why you sort of need these special screen reader cursors. So I will hit Insert Z. I’m using JAWS. Use virtual PC cursor off. And we hear it say use virtual PC cursor off. Within VDA, you would hit Insert and Spacebar, and you’d hear it say Focus Mode. So you toggle between Browse Mode and Focus Mode. And again, those are toggles. So that same insert Z will put my virtual PC cursor back on. And now I’m ready to use my Google keystrokes. And the first I’m going to do is T for today. T, main region, grid with four columns and four zeros. Saturday, May 11th, the day link, column 101. And there are a number of different views of the calendar. I always use what is simply called the agenda view. I find it just the easiest and most straightforward to navigate with. And guess what the letter would be? It is A. A. Carol Center for the Blind-Calendar-Schedule starting Saturday, May 11, 2024. Document. Main region. Grid with four columns and four zeros. Saturday, May 11. Now, with this mode, I can navigate in different ways. If I down arrow, that will bring me to whatever my events are for today. 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Vibic meeting. David Kingsbury, location, colon, HTTPS, colon, slash. Here again. 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Bits basic training dash Google calendar. David Kingsbury, no location. There we are. I can also right arrow to simply go to the next day. Sunday, May 12th, link, column 1, row 3. If I down arrowed, I would see what I have there. All day, Mother’s Day, calendar, colon, holidays in the United States, May 12th. Now, by the way, calendars are automatically added. The nice thing about being able to down arrow or through is simply to go through the various agenda items. But let’s say I’m not interested in what I have tomorrow or Monday or Tuesday. I can write arrow, let’s say, to next Thursday. I’d like to see what I’ve got going on Thursday. Monday, May 1st, Tuesday, May 4th, Wednesday, May 15th, Thursday, May 16th, link row 12. And now I’ll down arrow and I’ll see what I’ve got. All day, paycheck date, calendar, colon, events at the Carol set, 10.15 a.m. to 10.45 a.m., breakfast bunch, calendar, 12.15 p.m. to 1.15 p.m., ride co-dash chairs, David Kingsbury. All right, and I have those various events there. So super easy to navigate through here. I want to just show you one thing that trips people up a little bit from time to time. I’ll go back to today. Now I could write arrow there, or as I said, I can just hit T. T, Saturday, May 11th, the day link, column 101. If I left arrow to go back a day, and I happen to be on today, you’re going to see nothing happens. I just left arrow, nothing. But I can hit the letter P for previous day if it’s, you know, prior to today. P, Friday, May 10th. P, Thursday, May 9th. P, Wednesday, May 8th. Okay? So those are our first few keystrokes, simply how to navigate the calendar. Now, by the way, when I was moving day by day, if one of those days did not have any events at all, it would skip past that day. So if you use the calendar for the first time ever and you put it in agenda mode and your right arrow and it’s today, probably tomorrow we’ll be there because you’ve got Mother’s Day. Your next right arrow might bring you all the way to Memorial Day, skipping over everything else, because the only things that are in there are the holidays. The holidays are built in there by default. So don’t let that trip you up. Once you do put in events, you will be able to jump to various days. Next up, how do we create an event? And I use that word create on purpose because the letter is C to create an event. I’ll hit that now. And we land first in a title. What is the title of that event? Well, tomorrow’s Mother’s Day, and I think I’m going to go to a brunch, so I’ll write that. And I’ll tab. This is a pretty long dialogue to tab through, But I’m eventually going to, we’re going to take the whole tour of it. You’ll see how long it is. But a little bit later, I’ll show you how you can move through it much more quickly than tabbing endlessly. But I’m going to start tabbing here. Save button to activate press space bar. First thing I land on is a save button. Obviously, I’m not ready to save this yet. But that brings us to the next keystroke. At any point in this dialog, when you think you’ve got all the information in that you need, All you need to do is hit Control-S, and that will save the event. Again, very nice, for me, intuitive, because, you know, Control-S is pretty much your universal keystroke everywhere to save something. Tab again. Start date edit May 8th, 2024. Type and text. Not sure why it’s showing up on May 8th. Oh, that’s because I started this for May 8th. But I’m going to make this for tomorrow. That is the 12th. So I will simply type in 5 slash 12. 5 slash 1, 2. And that should put in tomorrow. I’ll tab once. Start time at combo collapsed. I’ll shift tab to make sure. Start date as of May 12, 2024. Type in text. Okay, I did not need to type in the full 5 slash 12 slash 2024, As long as it’s this year, between now and December 31st, it’s going to be smart enough to know what you’re looking for. You don’t need to type in the zeros either, like 05 for May. It doesn’t hurt, but it’s not necessary. I’ll tab to the start time. Start time at a combo collapse, 3.30 p.m. To set the value, use the arrow keys or type the value. Now, that’s simply saying 3.30 p.m. because by default, it’s looking at whatever the next time is from where we are right now. And it’s probably about 3.10, 3.15 here. I’m going to make that at 11 a.m. tomorrow. Now, here again, nice thing. I don’t have to type in the full 11 colon 00 a.m. I’ll just type 11 and it will hopefully guess the a.m. or the p.m. correctly. 1, 1, 11 a.m., 45 of 96. And it did. If it got the AM or PM wrong, I could type A or P to make it correct. Again, if this was like something for 11.15 AM, I could type 11.15. That would be good enough. So it’s very nice and flexible in that way. I will tell again. End time edit combo collapsed. 12 PM to set the value. Use the arrow keys or type the value. Now, by default, it puts in an end time, one hour after the start time. I’d like to go a little longer. I’m just going to make it 1 p.m. I’ll just type 1. 1, list box, 1 p.m. left parent to HRS right parent, 7 to 50, to move to an item. And it filled that in, and it reminded me that’s two hours. And I’m going to keep tabbing. Most of what’s coming up doesn’t really matter to us, but I want to sort of give you the whole tour here of this dialogue. End date edit, May 12, 2024. or type in text. Not going to change that. Time zone button to activate press space bar. It will automatically fill in the time zone. All day checkbox not checked to check press space bar. Now I would check this checkbox all day for things like birthdays, vacation days, something like that. And if you do that, then the start time and end times don’t really matter. Recurrence does not repeat. Combo box does not repeat. To change the selection, use the arrow keys. Recurrence is interesting. If this was the default is does not repeat. And for that brunch tomorrow, that’s what I’m going to keep. But let me down arrow through here and you’ll see the different options for recurring events. Expanded recurrence list with seven items does not repeat. One of seven to move to a night daily. Two of seven to move to an item. Press the arrow weekly on Sunday. Three of seven to move to an item. Press the arrow keys. Now, why weekly on Sunday? Because I’m starting this on a Sunday. Monthly on the second Sunday. Four of seven to move to an item. Press the arrow keys. Same here. If it was monthly, why second Sunday? because tomorrow is the second Sunday of this month. Annually on May 12th, 5 of 7, to move to an item, press the arrow keys. Might do that for a birthday. Every weekday, left parent, Monday to Friday, right parent, 6 of 7. Custom dot dot dot, 7 of 7, to move to an item, press the arrow keys. Now, custom, I won’t go in there, but what that allows you to do is set multiple days. If it was like weekly, like check a Monday, Wednesday, Friday checkbox, as well as set termination dates. So you might set a date, you know, six months from now if you knew it, or 15 recurrences from now if you knew it, or simply no end date at all. Now, if you do pick anything other than the default, I found you need to hit enter on it to lock it in. I’m not going to change that, though, so I’ll tab once. Group guest tab selected, one of two. Now let’s shift tab back just to make sure it stayed at non-recurrent. Recurrence does not repeat. Combo box does not repeat. And it did. All right. I’m going to keep tabbing. Group guest tab selected, one of two selected. Now here we get into if you were going to schedule meetings. I’m just going to keep this on the whole issue of appointments. Again, appointments, something you’re scheduling for yourself. We’ll see what the different options are for meetings. I’ll just have people auto complete expanded guest tab panel guest edit combo expanded That’s where you would type in the emails of those that you would like to invite to a meeting That’s permissions group let us modify the event checkbox not checked to check press spacebar Wouldn’t want guests modifying events I don’t think let us invite others to the event checkbox checked to clear check mark press spacebar Let us see the event guest list checkbox checked to clear checkmark press spacebar group event details tab selected one of two selected And again, I’m tabbing. So you could put this in a Google Meet environment as opposed to Zoom. Now here is add location. I’m going to come back in here a little later. I do want to add a location, but I’m not going to do that now, simply so we can see how we edit and how we can move around more quickly than tabbing endlessly. So I’ll be adding that a little bit later. Notifications list with one item, 10 minutes before, notification method, notification combo box. Here we can modify house notifications. Default I have here is 10 minutes before. I could make that 15 minutes, an hour, two hours. I could even make it the day before. That might be useful, you know, if you have to schedule paratransit or something. Minutes in advance for notification as it’s in box 10. The set unit of time selection, minutes combo box, minutes to change the selection. Here’s where we can change between minutes, days, weeks, etc. Or not have a notification at all. A few things that I think are a little irrelevant, but I’m going to keep tallying. Create meeting notes button. Description edit, blank, type and text. That’s new. But anyway, here I landed on the last thing was description. Here’s where you might actually put in some notes to yourself. I’m done. And I hit control S. Now again, often I’ll simply put in a title, a start date, a start time, maybe an end time, and then I’ll save it. That’ll be the end of it. But I’m going to save it right now. Control S. Control S, main region, grid with four columns and 40 rows, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., brunch, David Kingsbury, no location, May 12th. I’ll go back to today. Let’s see. P, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., ACB residence, David Kingsbury. Now, often when I jump day by day, I’m going to hit A again. A, Carroll Center for the Blind-Calendar-Schedule starting Saturday, May 11th. Sometimes it doesn’t necessarily put you right on the day, but when you follow that with the letter A, it will. Sunday, May 12th, link row 3. Let me down your own. All day, Mother’s Day, calendar cold, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., brunch, David Kingsbury, no. And there we are. There’s my brunch. Another keystroke. Let’s say I want to go somewhere quite a few days from now. G, go to. G, selected, May 11th, 2024. Go to date dialog, date edit, May 11th, 2024. I’d like to see what day of the week. July 4th is this year. So I’ll type 7. I’ll hit enter on that. And again, I find it useful to hit A for agenda view to remind it that that’s our view. And there’s Thursday, July 4th. I’ll down arrow. And I hear that that is a holiday. Okay. Now, a couple more things. I’ll go back to today. The Carroll Center for the Blind-Calendar-Schedule Agenda view. Let me go to that brunch. A couple of things I can do to this. I can delete it by simply hitting the delete key, and it will be gone. I’m not going to do that. Or I can edit it, and I’ll simply hit the letter E for edit. I could also hit enter on it and then tab once or twice to edit. You can get into edit mode on either of those ways. I’ll hit E. E, main region, cancel event changes button to activate press space bar. And let me tab to make sure that we land on something. Selected, brunch, title, edit, brunch, type and text. There’s the title. Now, I said earlier I would like to add a location. I could tab maybe 15 times to get there, but I got a quicker way to get there. And this is a JAWS keystroke coming now. Everything else before has been a Google keystroke. These are form fields. And with JAWS, we can get a list of form fields by hitting Insert F5. Select the form field dialog. List 1, List 2, Title Edit Brunch, 7 to 52. To move the items, use the arrow keys. You’re in 52 form fields. It’s not that many in here. That’s for the total page. Now, if I know the first letter of the field I would like to get to. Now, by the way, before I do that, the NVDA equivalent is accessed using what’s called the elements list. With that, you would hit insert F7. You would shift tab back once. And there’s a series of radio buttons. And you would up arrow or down arrow the forms. That’s because the elements list handles several things at once. Then you would tab once, and you’d be in your list of forms, and you’d be essentially where we are now with JAWS, and would behave the same way. I want to add a destination, and I can first let her navigate here by hitting A for add destinations. I’ll hit enter on that. Enter type and text event details tab panel add location edit combo. I don’t know the exact address, but I’ll write Cambridge because that’s where it is. C-A-M-B-R-I-D-G-E. And I’ll tab to get out of there. Preview maps button to activate press space R. Now again, the nice thing about that forms mode is I could quickly navigate to any other fields that I would like to edit if I happen to know the first letter of that field. So I’ll do the insert F again. There was a place I could put in a description. So I could hit D. And I’d hit enter to get in there if I wanted to put in a few notes. If I want to change the title. I didn’t enter to get in there. And I could edit that. Maybe I want to change the start date. Or the start time. Or maybe the end time. Or maybe the recurrence. So, very nice way to quickly get in there and edit rather than doing all the tabbing that I mentioned earlier. I’ll escape out of this. And I will save with Control-S because I want it saved updated with that location. Control S, main region, grid with four columns and 41 rows, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., brunch, David Kingsbury, location, colon, Cambridge, Mays, West. And there we are. There are some more keystrokes, but for me, these are the ones that really get you the most mileage. Let me just repeat those. Oh, I always forget to say this at the beginning. You don’t have to be taking notes because I am going to send notes to the conversation list. But if you have been taking notes and you still want to take notes, let me summarize what those keystrokes are. But again, I will be putting this on the conversation list right after we finish the leadership list, too. Why not? So once you first get in, insert Z. You’ve got to turn your virtual PC cursor off with JAWS or insert spacebar to switch from browse mode to focus mode in NVDA. T for today, A for agenda view, G for go to. In that agenda view, you right arrow day by day, you down arrow to go through your events. C to create an event. Control S to save that event. Delete to simply delete an event. E to edit an event. and then very handy keystroke to get into the list of form fields with JAWS, insert F5 so you can first let her navigate to the field you want, if you want to edit. NVDA equivalent, elements list, insert F7, shift tab back once, upper down arrow to forms, tab once, and then you have your list of form fields. Let me see how we’re doing time-wise. Not so bad. Let me stop here. Maybe we can have a few questions, and then we’ll switch over. We’ll see how we can sync between the computer and the iPhone, if there are any questions. Pat? pet you may unmute if you want to go through a bunch of days do you keep hitting r if you want to do what go through a bunch of different days yeah no you again you put it in agenda view and then you right arrow to go day by day or left arrow i mean right arrow to go forward a day left arrow to go back a day um so if you’re doing a bunch of days would be R, R, R, R? No, there’s no R in any of that. Right arrow. Right arrow. Do you do multiple right arrows? Yeah, to go day by day. Or as I said, if you want, you know, if it’s pretty far off in the future, G for go to, type in the day, and hit enter. And then I like to hit A for agenda view after that. That’s what we did to quickly jump to July 4th rather than right arrow, I don’t know, 60 times or whatever it might be. Okay, we have another raised hand. Abby? I was just wondering, if your event is a Zoom meeting like this one, if I were to, say, copy the link from the email Zoom invitation somewhere in that calendar, would it be easier then to get into the meeting that way? Thank you very much for asking that because I wanted to mention it and I forgot mentioning it. That is how I keep track of my Zoom meetings. So what I do is, you know, I get an email. I select in the email, I select and copy that, the URL, the link. I put it in that ad location field. I just paste it in there. Now, one thing when you do that, that’s not an actionable link. So what you do is you get into the destination of ad location field. You need to recopy and paste that and then like open a new tab with control T and paste it into the address bar to open the zone. Oh, OK. OK. OK. But that’s it. that’s a backup way of doing it in case you lose the email that’s with the original link. So I’ll definitely do that because I’m sometimes good at losing those emails. So I’ll do that from now on. For me, that is the way I always do it because of exactly what you just said. And, you know, rather than I’ve, we’ve all had the situation maybe where, okay, oh, a meeting starting in five minutes and I can’t find that email for whatever reason from two weeks ago or whatever. If you put it right there in your calendar, you’re going to be able to find it easily. Not to mention the fact that you will also get a reminder of it 10 or 15 minutes before you’re not going to get that otherwise. Yes. Okay. Well, thank you very much. Yeah. That’s how I do that. It just makes life much easier. Then I just delete the email. I don’t even care about the email anymore. Oh yeah. Okay. There you go. All right. That’s great. Thank you. Okay. Next we have Elizabeth Ann. You’ll need to unmute Elizabeth. Okay. I’m going to go to the next person, Elizabeth, and I’ll come back to you. Carla. Well, your previous person asked about Zoom, but I’m still confused. I teach classes on Zoom for homeschoolers and foreign languages, and Zoom keeps changing their interface. And the one thing that they keep pestering me about is adding a calendar. But I’m really confused about how to integrate this. I know you said the steps. You said them sort of quickly. But how would I integrate my meetings into the calendar? And is that a good thing to do with my students? I’m a little confused. That’s Zoom internal calendar thing. I’ve never messed with it. Frankly, I don’t have anything to do with it. You know, there are many approaches to, you know, to doing these things. If somebody’s on here who’s used that Zoom calendar, maybe they can talk a little bit about it. But for me, I just find it much easier when I get an email invitation to do what I just said before, just copy and paste that link into the ad location field in my Google calendar. Yes, I’d like you to repeat those steps, first of all. And secondly, I’m looking to do it in reverse because I’m generating the Zoom invitations as the teacher of the students in these classes. Well, first of all, the second part, for generating the Zoom invitations, well, here’s what I do. And maybe other people have other ways and they think it’s more efficient. I go in the Zoom app on my desktop. I go into the meetings tab there. I do everything I need to do to create the meeting and save that meeting. And then I copy the meeting invitation right into an Outlook message, and I address it, and I send it off to people that way. I might make that a meeting invitation. I might not. I might just send it out to them. That’s how I handle it. You don’t do this with Google Calendar because I was thinking if Google, that’s exactly what I do with Zoom. They keep changing their interface. But I’m just wondering, since it’s pestering me about this calendar thing, if it would be better for me to actually generate the invitation and paste it into Zoom and reverse or just to do it in Zoom. It pesters me to death about that calendar. And the Zoom app also drives me. I mean, I love Zoom in many ways, but I don’t like the desktop app because it’s just very annoying, changing all the time, very annoying pop-ups trying to send you stuff and all the rest of it. So I personally don’t have any desire to play around with it even. Would you just repeat the steps that you had for pasting them in? Because that went sort of fast. I was trying to follow it in my head. Okay. So steps are you receive an email. That’s good. you know, all the Zoom information in there, including all the phone numbers and all the rest of it. Open that email. Down arrow to the actual Zoom link. Select it, you know, as you typically select stuff, you know, line by line. Shift down arrow to select the URL. Copy it. Control C. Now it’s on your clipboard. Now, in your Google Calendar, you know, you have created an event with a name, with a title, with a start time. I’m going to start date, a start time. Then what I always do, rather than tab 50 times to the add location field, I’ll do insert F5. We’re talking JAWS. I’ll hit A till I get to add location. I’ll hit enter, and I’ll paste the URL in there, the HTTP, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. then I’ll save it with control s now when it’s time for me to go to that meeting now this is me as a participant this is not me hosting I will uh you know I will go to that Then, insert F5 for the JAWS listed form fields, A for add location, hit enter to get in there. Control A, might as well hit Control A to select the HTTP, blah, blah, blah. Control C to copy it. Then in the same web browser, because I’m in a web browser with the calendar, I’ll hit Control-T to open a new tab. I land right on the address bar. I’ll do Control-V to paste the URL. And I’ll hit Enter. And now I’m in the window where I’m ready to open a Zoom meeting. That’s what I’ll do. It sounds like a lot, but you do it a few times. it gets pretty quick and easy to do. You know, first few times you do it, you might still keep that email in your inbox just to make sure you can find it. Okay, next we have Elizabeth Ann. You’re unmuted, so please go ahead. Hi, David and everyone else. Great presentation. I have a question about the default holidays. that is in the Google Calendar, do you have to retype the holidays in the Google Calendar or you just leave them as default and just add the beginning and end time and all that other stuff in there? Well, the holidays are just in there. That’s just a default Google Calendar setting. I didn’t add Mother’s Day or Memorial Day or July 4th. That comes in there. You can actually turn that off if you want. I don’t turn it off. And in fact, I don’t remember how to do it. But in this calendar, as well as the Outlook calendar, I think there are places you can go where you can also get calendars, holidays from different countries and all of that. But the holidays come built in there. You don’t add them yourself. Okay, great. Thank you. Good presentation. Okay, next we have Diana. Hello. Hi. Yeah, I was wondering, and I realize this question, I’m not looking for the how-tos because I can research this if this is a possibility, because I realize it may be past the scope of this webinar. But is there a possibility? I’m enjoying how easy this is to navigate with the Google Calendar. It looks really super easy. So I was wondering if there’s a way to export or link, sync, whatever, your calendar that you may have on an Exchange server through Outlook at work and put that on your personal device with Google Calendar. Yes. Yes, you can. I do talk about that in chapter four of my book, but we’ll see when we get to my phone that I have several calendars there, including my Outlook calendar. But yes, you can. Thank you. I just want to know for the impossibility before I research it or whatever. Thank you. Okay. Betsy Doan, your hand is going up and down. We might make this the last. question and then I’ll get to syncing. Okay. You’ll need to unmute Betsy. I’ll send her a request. Okay. Maybe we should come back to her. David, go ahead. Okay. So I’m going to turn off my screen share, and I’m going to take off my headphones. And then I’m going to – oops, somebody’s continuing talking. Okay. So I’m going to make my iPhone phone as loud as I can make it. I don’t have any question okay thank you now I got my own phone going here can you all hear that? is that reasonably loud? I know I can hear it okay you can hear it? now it may be that once you’ve got your your Google Calendar set up on your computer. If on your iPhone you only have one account and it’s your Gmail account, it might be that everything is synced already and you don’t have to do anything. But if you don’t have a Google account on here or you’ve got multiple accounts, there are two or three places where you want to check things out. So first thing I’m going to do is I’m going to go into my settings. Open Settings. And I’m going to flick right a bunch of times to Mail. There we are. I’ll double tap on Mail. And I just want to see what mail accounts I have loaded on here. Allow mail to access. Heading. Siri on search. And I’ll click right. Notifications. Cellular data. Accounts. For. Button. And it says accounts for button. So I’ve got four accounts in here. I will double tap. Accounts. Heading. And I’ll click right. iCloud. Cloud Drive. Contacts. Calendars and six more. Button. Now, for each of these accounts, it says what I already have sort of up and going so it will open on my phone. And I’m going to go to my work account. Hello, mail, david.kingsburyacarroll.org, mail, contacts, calendars, button. And we hear it say mail, contacts, calendar, button. Now, if calendar wasn’t showing up, I double tap here. Gmail, heading. And I’ll click right. And I want to make sure the correct things are switched on. In this case, calendar. And there we are. That is on. And if it wasn’t, I would need to turn that on so that my calendar app, and I’m talking about the native calendar app that comes with the phone, will be able to access this. I’m going to go to a second place in settings. And now, by the way, in the same place, if the account was not there, I could add the account, and I would want to do that. I’ll go back. I’ll go back to settings again. Now, I’m not sure I need it to – I’ll keep going back. There we are. Settings, settings, heading. And I want to flick right to calendar here. Contacts, button, calendar, button. I’ll double tap there. Now, I may not have needed to go to mail there first, but I just go to both places to be sure. I’ll go to calendar. Allow calendar to access, heading. Now, why am I going here? It’s because I want to see what my default calendar is, because that’s going to allow me to create events with Siri. Siri on search. Button. Accounts. Four. Time zone override. Alternate calendar. Week numbers. Show invitee declines. Switch to right. Sync. All events. Default alert times. Button. Duration for new event. Start week on. Default calendar. data.kingsburyapparel.org button. And that says that that is the correct account is my default calendar. Or, you know, the default account for my calendar. If it wasn’t, I’d double tap and I in there. In fact, I’m going to get out of settings now before I go into the calendar, because the next place I want to go is the calendar app itself. Let me see if I can create a new event now using Siri. So create appointment for tomorrow from 6 o’clock p.m. to 8 o’clock p.m. Mother’s Day Bash. Mother’s Day Bash is scheduled for 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. tomorrow. All right. We’ll see what shows up. Now, I’m going to go into the calendar app. Open calendar. Calendar. Pay. Back button. Now, first thing I want to see is whether that brunch, as well as the Mother’s Day bash is actually showing up here. Events. Vibic meeting from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Bits basic training. Google calendar from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. David.KingsburyAtCarroll.org. Now. Sunday, May 12th. Mother’s Day. All day. Brunch from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cambridge. David.KingsburyAtCarroll.org. There’s the brunch. And again, I put that in on the computer and it’s showing up here. So good news. I’ll click right. Mother’s Day bash from 6 p.m. to 8 o’clock p.m. David.Kingsbury at carol.org. And that’s showing up there too. Now, if that wasn’t, I would want to check that I actually have the correct account loaded here right in the calendar app. And if you were using a different calendar app on your phone like Outlook or something like that, I imagine there you’d go into the settings and you would just double check that the right account or accounts are loaded. Here, if I want to check that, down near the bottom of the screen is a button for… Right cell committee without ODA. From 6 p.m. to toolbar. Calendars. Button. Calendars. And that was down near the bottom. Let me double tap on that. I’ll double tap on calendars. Calendars. Heading. And now I can flick right through and I’ll see the different calendars that are turned on for this app. Done. Button. Outlook. Heading. Selected. Calendar. Button. David.Kingsbury at carol.org. Heading. So that’s, let me see what it says about it. Idle button. Selected. David.Kingsbury at carol.org. Button. So it’s selected. Actions available. And I would need to double tap to select it if it wasn’t. Selected. Birthdays. Shared by contacts. All right. And there we are. That’s how you do the syncing. Maybe in a moment, I’ll go back and see on my computer whether the Mother’s Day bash showed up again, because I put that on here on the phone. And I’d like to check back on the computer. I do find sometimes there may be a little bit of a delay in the syncing, like five minutes or something like that. And sometimes it’s instantaneous. why don’t I stop there and we’ll take however many remaining minutes there are for whatever other questions there are. And we’re, we’re waiting. Don’t see any raised hands at this time. Everybody’s busily setting up their mother’s day appointments. Ah, Carla has her hand up. Oh, now she lowered it. Carla, did you have a question? I do. And my question is, I don’t have an iPhone, but can this, I do have, you know, the Android notetakers like the BrailleSense and things like that. Can your Google, since they are Google devices, can this calendar that you created on the computer be synced with them? And how would you do that? Or is it a simple? Yeah, definitely. I don’t use an Android, so I don’t know how to do it. But again, the Google Calendar that I’ve got on my PC here, that’s up on the cloud. That’s in the internet. And so I’m absolutely sure that you can sync it on your Android. I just don’t know the steps for doing it. Thank you. And thanks again for all the help you’ve given me over the last couple of weeks. Now, one thing, I’m going to put these notes on the conversation list. If you don’t happen to be subscribed to that and you want them, I can give you an email. Am I allowed to give an email address over this? Brad, what do you say? I would, you’re. Repeat the question. He wants to know if he can give his email address. No. Is it a work email address? It can be work or personal, either or. Well, we don’t do personal. That violates community guidelines. If you want to give your work address, that would probably be fine. Yeah. Okay. So my work email address, if you want to get these notes, I got about four pages of notes. So that’s david.kingsbury at carol.org. So D-A-V-I-D dot K-I-N-G-S-B-U-R-Y at carol.org. That’s C-A-R-R-O-L-L dot O-R-G. And again, if you have access to the conversation list and or the leadership list, I’m going to put those on right after we finish. Okay. And David, by the way, we have 10 minutes left. Okay. Well, I don’t have a whole lot more than what I just did there. That is, that’s pretty much it. So if this was the Outlook calendar, it would take me longer to do. But, and I’ve sounded like I was trashing the Outlook calendar. It works quite well. And if you have a, somebody mentioned earlier, an exchange account and you’re using Outlook, you know, that might be sort of your preferred way to go because you’ve got the Outlook right there on your computer. It’s syncing up to the web, and you can add that also in those same places on the iPhone that we went to earlier. Okay. If we have no other questions, we can go ahead and end the meeting, if you would like. but I’ll turn it over to turn it over to Deborah. She’s muted. She said that she was going to be eating lunch, I believe. Yeah, I’m not sure where Debbie is. If David’s done, we can go ahead and wrap it up. Yeah, we can just wrap it up. Yeah, if you’d like to make any final remarks. Just remind everyone that if you want to learn, we appreciate y’all being here. This is sponsored by BITS, Blind Information Technology Specialist. If you want to learn more about BITS, please check out our website at bits-acb.org. That’s B-I-T-S-A-C-B.org. You can find out more about BITS, and there’s a link on there to join BITS if you would like. 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