November 2008 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Reminder: Coming Up on Main Menu in a Little Under 9 Hours - CAPTCHA!
by Darrell Shandrow 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

Hello Everyone, This announcement represents a friendly reminder for all of you to listen to an important, two hour live Main Menu coming right up later today. Coming up on an exciting two hour live program, we hear from a panel of technology industry experts all about CAPTCHA (visual verification) and other forms of visual authentication, accessibility challenges to existing visual verification systems, the balance between human rights and security, existing solutions for providing reasonable accomodations to visual authentication and emerging accessibility solutions. We are proud to introduce an impressive panel of experts and their primary areas of focus: * Matt May from the Adobe Systems Accessibility Team will discuss his 2005 W3C note on the inaccessibility of CAPTCHA. * Luis von Ahn from ReCAPTCHA at Carnegie Mellon University will describe their accessible solution. * Steve Dispensa from PhoneFactor will tell us all about an innovative, telephone based two-factor authentication system. The accessibility of CAPTCHA (visual verification schemes on the web) and other similar forms of visual authentication is a topic of utmost importance to the blind, visually impaired and others with print reading disabilities. Real, universally accessible solutions are going to require significant amounts of effort, good will and out-of-the-box thinking. We encourage active participation by the blind community, members on all sides of the issue from the mainstream technology industry and those sighted people who care about what happens to us. Here is how to participate in the show: The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333. You may email your questions to: mainmenu(a)acbradio.org You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu(a)acbradio.org Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe(a)googlegroups.com Come join an already lively group of users. Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: Main Menu - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu Main Menu Live - http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel. Follow this link to listen to the show: http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_… Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow The Main Menu Production Team

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WSUS 3.0sp1 accessibility?
by Dave 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Hello, I was wondering if anyone had setup and was using windows server update services v3.0sp1? I was using 2, then the update to 3 happened and it's wizard seems very unaccessible. I was wondering if anyone had workarounds? This is with jfw9. Thanks. Dave.

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accessible standalone computer imaging program?
by Dave 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

Hello, My recent experience with my laptop has shown that i am in need of an accessible flexible imaging solution. I tried ghost specifically 2007, but since they moved to a CD system as opposed to the old floppies which i could batch script that wasn't workable without sighted assistance. And when i got it ghost wouldn't see the USB external hard disk, i'm not sure but i think that reason was due to the fact that it was a 500 gb hd and formatted ntfs, i'd like for this to be doable. Thanks. Dave.

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yet another vmware question
by John G. Heim 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

I have a Windows PC that I pretty much use only as a Windows terminal. I mean, I do web browsing, read email, and use ssh. But all my real work is done on a linux box. I was thinking of combining the 2 machines by installing vmware server and then running Windows as a virtual machine. I was thinking that then I'd ssh from the virtual machine to the real machine to do my work. Is the fre vmware product vmware server good enough? Do I need to pay for vmware workstation?

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disk manager accessibility
by Dave 21 Nov '08

21 Nov '08

Hello, Is anyone using server 2003 disk manager with speech? I'm wanting to manage disks if possible via that if possible, doing things with raid. The last time i looked at this about six months back it didn't work so well. I was wondering if this had changed? Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible standalone computer imaging program?
by Angelo Sonnesso 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Take a look at image for windows it comes with a dos companion program, and they both work well with speech. Angelo Sonnesso M.A. M.S. Social Worker for the Blind -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:10 PM To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] accessible standalone computer imaging program? Hello, My recent experience with my laptop has shown that i am in need of an accessible flexible imaging solution. I tried ghost specifically 2007, but since they moved to a CD system as opposed to the old floppies which i could batch script that wasn't workable without sighted assistance. And when i got it ghost wouldn't see the USB external hard disk, i'm not sure but i think that reason was due to the fact that it was a 500 gb hd and formatted ntfs, i'd like for this to be doable. Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.6/1766 - Release Date: 11/4/2008 8:26 AM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.549 / Virus Database: 270.8.6/1766 - Release Date: 11/4/2008 8:26 AM

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accessible server based antivirus software
by Philip 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Has anyone found an accessible server based antivirus package? I tried avg internet security sbs edition as a demo. the admin console seems to be a nice package, but it crashes when attempting to access it with any version of jaws. it comes back with a really helpful message, "something really bad happened" contacting the vender just got me a form email saying they are working on the problem. I also tried windoweyes which doesn't have the crashing problem, but it would require scripts or set files to work properly which I am not qualified to develop. I am not impressed by symantec for a number of reasons. any other packages that I should look at? I want to be able to manage it from a server, pushing out virus deffinitions to clients, perform scans on clients from the server, and view the resulting reports. Thanks Phil

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JFW activation
by Andrew Hodgson 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Hi, Anyone else had issues getting activation resets from Freedom Scientific? I normally request a reset around twice per year, but this time I had an issue where I upgraded the RAM in my laptop, causing me to have to activate again, then this weekend I tried to install Vista, activated, and had a driver crash which meant reinstalling. I did get the activation count reset, but I got a message stating that they have noticed that I had to have the account reset a few times, and to contact support if this continued happening. I am frankly unhappy with the current activation process, and wonder if anyone has got FS to work round it in their situation? At work its even worse since due to the license type I was given I only have one activation, which means that if I need to reinstall I am going to have to reset it afterwards. Thanks. Andrew.

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WSUS 2.0
by Dave 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

Hello, Is anyone running WSUS 2.0? I finally gave up on 3, accessibility wise it wasn't happening for me and no computers were working. Is anyone working with 2, if so can you write me? I'm trying to get computers to show up in the web interface. I've created a test group within the web interface and via a group policy set clientside targeting and assigned the machine i want to that group. I did a gpupdate /force and rebooted the client but it isn't showing up. Also, on the client when i go to start, windows update the Microsoft update page is displayed not mine, i've confirmed that firewall settings are not the cause of this. Should i also be going to http://servername/Selfupdate? Thanks. Dave.

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JFW activation
by Andrew Hodgson 18 Nov '08

18 Nov '08

Hi, Anyone else had issues getting activation resets from Freedom Scientific? I normally request a reset around twice per year, but this time I had an issue where I upgraded the RAM in my laptop, causing me to have to activate again, then this weekend I tried to install Vista, activated, and had a driver crash which meant reinstalling. I did get the activation count reset, but I got a message stating that they have noticed that I had to have the account reset a few times, and to contact support if this continued happening. I am frankly unhappy with the current activation process, and wonder if anyone has got FS to work round it in their situation? At work its even worse since due to the license type I was given I only have one activation, which means that if I need to reinstall I am going to have to reset it afterwards. Thanks. Andrew.

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