June 2011 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Telephony systems
by Andrew Hodgson 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Hi all, Our current Call Manager 4.x servers are creaking under their age, and we are looking at replacing this either with a new Cisco telephony system or a completely new system altogether. The system has to use IP as the connection to the handsets, as we don't want to add in more cables. Has anyone any experience in deploying a new Call manager setup, or a similar telephony system, and how was the accessibility? Thanks. Andrew.

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let's talk Backup Exec
by Ryan Shugart 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Hey everyone: I just got a promotion at work, and with the goodness of a promotion comes more responsibilities. I'm now in charge of our backup infrastructure. We run Backup Exec 12.5, and have 16 or so media servers in various branch offices around the world. While Backup Exec used to be very accessible, over the last two versions accessibility seems to have gone into something of a decline, I already use scripts just to read the main table of jobs, and might need more just to get around the scheduling window so I can actually schedule a job. I'd consider the rest of the program accessible but clunky, tabbing doesn't always bring you where you think it will, on some screens tab order seems to be dynamic. Backup Exec also has an odd way of bringing up alert windows and grabbing your focus, even when you tell it specifically not to. While clunkyness is OK on one server, when you have fifteen individual servers to manage and no way to do it in a centralized fashion clunkyness is less acceptable. This is also less than a quarter of my new responsibilities as well. The current admin has the remote desktop console setup with all the Backup Exec servers in his favorites, stays logged into each server with a Backup Exec window open, and flicks from screen to screen and can easily glance at the output from each job. For us screen reader users, that doesn't work well. I've already got e-mail alerts set up and am using some Outlook rules to sort failure jobs out from successes, but was wondering if there's anything else I can be doing? I'd think people in really large environments with hundreds of media servers aren't logging into each server on a daily basis, so there has to be better ways to handle this. Any ideas? Thanks. Ryan

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Address book in windows live mail
by Troy Hergert 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Does anyone know the keyboard shortcut for opening the contacts or address book in Windows live mail 2011? I tried control shift b which doesn't work. Control shift c worked in wlm 2009 but now in 2011 that starts a new contact. I can't even find the option to go to the address book from the ribbon bar. Any ideas? Thanks.

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Question
by Greg B. 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

Hello everyone, Has anybody taken courses from the Cisco Academy for the Visually Impaired? If you have, can you tell me what the course was like such as content, instructors, accessibility, etc. Thanks, Greg B. email: gbobo(a)woh.rr.com

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Mouse commands
by Jackie McBride 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

U might find either autohotkey or autoit more useful. I think both have macro recording facilities. On 6/24/11, Vincent van Itallie <vincent(a)vanitallie.net> wrote: > Hi all, > > The company I am working for has implimented a new release of the service > support tool we're using. > > I can use80 % of this webbased application, the other 20 is useless because > there are some commands I can only process with a mouse click. > > Is there a tool which can help me record the mouse movements and clicks > with a sighted co-worker, and let me reproduce those actions by pressing a > keystroke? > I've looked at jfw hotspotclicker, although that seems a bit complicated to > me. > > I hope to hear from one of yours. > > All the best, > Vincent. > > > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list > Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins > -- Blame the computer--why not? It can't defend itself & occasionally might even be the culprit Jackie McBride Jaws Scripting training materials: www.screenreaderscripting.com homePage: www.abletec.serverheaven.net

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Mouse commands
by Vincent van Itallie 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

Hi all, The company I am working for has implimented a new release of the service support tool we're using. I can use80 % of this webbased application, the other 20 is useless because there are some commands I can only process with a mouse click. Is there a tool which can help me record the mouse movements and clicks with a sighted co-worker, and let me reproduce those actions by pressing a keystroke? I've looked at jfw hotspotclicker, although that seems a bit complicated to me. I hope to hear from one of yours. All the best, Vincent.

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RDP over VPN
by Negoslav Sabev 13 Jun '11

13 Jun '11

Hello, I'm back with more questions. I want to run remote desktop connection over VPN for security reasons. I use xp PRO sp3 as a controlled system and Windows7 PRO as a controlling system. I successfully establish VPN connection between the machines. I have using of default gateway on the controlled system disabled so I am able to use internet on the controlling system. Here comes my question. When I initiate RDC, How can I be sure that the remote connection is running through the VPN channel and is not exposed on packet sniffing? Is there a way to check this? Negoslav

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jaws in full screen command window?
by John G. Heim 10 Jun '11

10 Jun '11

I submitted a bug report to Freedom Scientific regarding the behaviour of jaws in a full-screen command window. The problem is that if you make a command window full screen by pressing Alt+Enter, jaws cannot read the text. AFAK, this has been the case since jaws 9. And it is a problem I've seen in jaws 11 and 12. But Freedom Scientific tech support tells me that they can't reproduce the bug. Can anyone confirm this bug? Or does jaws work in a full screen command window for you? To try to duplicate my problem, do the following: 1. Open a run dialog box by pressing Windows+r. Enter "command" into the box and press enter. 2. When the command window opens, press Alt+Enter to make the window full screen. 3. Check if jaws can read the screen by typing a command like dir or helpYour keystrokes will be echoed but, in my experience, the text displayed by these commands is not read and there is no way to get jaws to read it.

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Never mind found RSAT
by Billy L. Irwin 10 Jun '11

10 Jun '11

Never mind... I found RSAT. I used it in my 70-640 class and dang just forgot.. That is what stress will do to ya.

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deployment of an image to different systems?
by Zameer Mahomed 09 Jun '11

09 Jun '11

Hi Listers, I've been pondering about this question for sometime, and would really like to know how, as a blind-sysadmin you accomplish such a thing. given the following scenario, you have a server with an image which you must deploy to a number of computers, how do you go about doing it? Also, would the process differ, if you were deploying a windows or linux image? I know the regular sighted people could do the following: 1. boot to a pre-environment with network support so that they could access the image from the server and restore it to the system. 2. Use PXE or something like that, where the computer which will get the image, boots from the network card to the server where the image is then accessed. not sure exactly on this one as I'm no sysadmin, but merely just someone trying to learn. I know about deploying applications through sccm since I've heard Daragh's podcast on the deployment of jaws. Thanks for reading, and any reply on how you manage to do such things would really be welcome as I'm such a newbe, it is one of my dreams to learn how sysadmins do the things they do. Regards,

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