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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jerry Price gave a wonderful presentation at our last champter meeting. Sharon sent out a listof products he refferred to and URLs for places that can be helpful in finding other products. I came across an article that is a good review of the amazon echo and Amazon dot. I will provide the link to the article below. The reviewer has a whole section about how to turn on and off lights in ytour home. Sharon asked on how that could be done at the meeting. A concern of security was brought up. Both from a constant listening point of view and from storage of credit card information. I would like to point outthat like the Amazon echo listening for a trigger word constantly Starting with the iPhone 6, Siri can be setup to listen for your requests too. So instead of holding down the home button, you just say the trigger word, Siri. As for the credit card and the storage of it on your phone – I am not sure about all smart phones, but in order to setup the app store on the iPhone, you have to store your credit card info. I would have to double check this, but I believe the credit card info is stored inside the app and not out in the cloud associated with some service. So similarly ordering pizza the Pizza Hut app would have your credit card info saved within it in case you use it offen. So it is up to the app on how it sets up security of your info. The Amazon echo or dot to my knowledge would not have this info stored within its skills. The skills or templates are instructions on how the Amazon echo interfaces / connects with the existing apps already on your devices the Amazon echo has connection to such as your phone.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here is the URL for the article I mentioned. Check it out.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001CLBkezp2O4WjT2nT5fnhpyFi9OxluHvAidiplgTayUqIIDTocP9kcBP6NH_0UAnz5-HwWKTjFnG4NEjmRaWAxVDgHi44SCDGZGhfkkq9J-y9mzcZEshVU6SXW0uJDqo_4_OihcHiAEdU_dK8_E73woQhVJgCwddxxk6zefqsIO8vPs6dRPrZ8FN6IYHdJqRsQqhJtQsEf1IJ5QCTpzSQGFlB1MwfeyYKZuo8YIlsVKG-31kzm5kNW0JM4P353hp1&c=mkog6dvD7nbrJf-hv3AJI4OSCuD-rlmpCXFLsfk5JCjk8UZYG11wRg==&ch=cRFrUKisMVu-k_ucK90Do2jmWbCu7SUegQquKa1tzkEUAmvfCXiwaA==" target="_blank" title="Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday. A Flying Blind, LLC Publication.">https://luisperezonline.com/2016/12/05/amazon-echo-as-an-accessibility-support/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Graham Mehl<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:blind@trailstone.com"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>blind@trailstone.com</span></a><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>NFB Central Maryland Chapter, Vice President<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>LCB graduate, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.freedomscientific.com/Certification"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=82 height=82 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D25123.85029590" alt="JAWS Certified, 2016"></span></a><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>