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Documents to help you join video conferencing
Documents to help android users
Documents to help Apple users
Documents to help you with your smart home devices
Easy Read documents
App reviews

Video conferencing guides

Zoom instructions for members

Downloading and Installing Zoom Cloud Meetings on a Windows 10 Computer

Joining and Participating in a Zoom Meeting using a Windows computer

Joining and Participating in a Zoom Meeting on an Apple iPhone

Joining and Participating in a Zoom Meeting on an Apple iPad

Joining and Participating in a Zoom Meeting on an Android Device

Setting a background image in Zoom Cloud meetings

An Introduction to Microsoft Teams

Creating a Desktop Icon for a Zoom Meeting

Guides for android users

Creating a Home Screen Shortcut to a Web Page

Creating a WhatsApp Group and Making a Video Call on Android Devices

Connecting your Android device to a Wi-Fi network

Listening to RNIB Talking Books on Android Devices using Dolphin EasyReader

An Introduction to the Voice Assistant Screen Reader on Samsung Devices

Setting up and using the NHS COVID-19 Test and Trace app on an Android Smartphone

Joining and Participating in a Zoom Meeting using Synapptic

Changing the screen timeout on Samsung devices

Inverting screen colours on Samsung devices

An Introduction to using the Live Transcribe App on Android Devices

This short video below shows Google Live Transcribe in action.

Guides for Apple users

Changing the auto lock setting

Showing All Contacts in the Contacts App

Sending a text message using Siri

Sending an email using Siri

Connecting your iOS device to a Wi-Fi Network

Creating a WhatsApp Group and Making a Video Call on iOS Devices

Spelling and Defining Words Using Siri

Making Phone Calls Using Siri

Creating and Using Text Replacements on iOS Devices

Listening to RNIB Talking Books on Apple iOS Devices using Dolphin EasyReader

An Introduction to the Logitech K380 Keyboard with VoiceOver

Backing Up Data to iCloud on an Apple iOS Device

An Introduction to the VoiceOver Screen Reader on Apple iOS Devices

Inverting Screen Colours on Apple iOS Devices

Setting up and using the NHS COVID-19 Test and Trace app on an iPhone

Deleting Email Messages from an Apple iPad

Smart home and other devices guides

Alexa and Echo

Setting Up Your Amazon Echo Device

Amazon Echo – 20 useful skills and functions

Amazon Echo – what do the light colours mean

Amazon Echo – 15 Trivia Games

Keyboard shortcuts

Useful Microsoft Word Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts for Selecting Text

Keyboard Shortcuts for Navigating Text

Windows Logo key Shortcuts

Other

Customising the Mouse Pointer in Windows 10

Using YouTube the Easy Way

The virtues of a refurbished computer

Common Technology Acronyms

Creating a Desktop Icon for a Specific Web Site

Screen readers – what they are, how they work and what’s available

An Introduction to the Windows 10 Magnifier

5 great technology podcasts

Adjusting the Master Sound Volume in Windows 10

Easy read guides with images

The easy read guides are not screen-reader friendly because of the way we have to put the pictures in these guides. If you would like a plain text version of these guides with no pictures, please let us know.

Easy read: what do I need for a video meeting

Easy read: why can’t we have our usual meeting

Easy read what to do just before the video meeting

Easy read using zoom for the first time and downloading the app

Easy read Echo Dot instructions

A list of possible Alexa commands

App reviews

Google live transcribe

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