June 2010 - 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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Problems with ping on win7
by Mario Percinic 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

Hello there. I need some help with solving the problem with ping on my win 7 machine at home. I just found out that by default ping doesn't work on win7 and that windows firewall has to be reconfigured by creating new rule which would accept icmp. I created new rule with the following settings: rule type, custom, allowed connection yes, access from and to any ip address yes, under protocol tipe i selected icmpv4 and under settings, i selected specific icmp tipes, where i checked the box which says, echo requests. However after applying the rule , nothing changed and ping can not be acomplished successfully. Oh btw, the machine goes out thru thompson 780 w router, with its firewall turned off. any suggestions? Mario Percinic ICT specialist for accessible technology mail/googletalk/msn: mario.percinic(a)gmail.com skype: acousticman GSM: +385922630259

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Zoomtext on W2k3?
by Denning John W 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Anyone know how to install Zoomtext 9.1 on Windows 2K3 Server? I've seen it done, and believe the person doing it had to enter a command line switch when running the installer. Need it for a class. John Denning -JD- System Administrator EOPS-ECC-T2WB-SS-PM TOD 6:00-14:30 A+ MCP MCSA MCSE ITIL 404-788-2780 mobile 770-455-2033 desk

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Zoomtext on W2k3?
by Denning John W 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Anyone know how to install Zoomtext 9.1 on Windows 2K3 Server? I've seen it done, and believe the person doing it had to enter a command line switch when running the installer. Need it for a class. John Denning -JD- System Administrator EOPS-ECC-T2WB-SS-PM TOD 6:00-14:30 A+ MCP MCSA MCSE ITIL 404-788-2780 mobile 770-455-2033 desk

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