June 2013 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Team viewer
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

Hello, I posted on Friday about using Team viewer. Here is where I am with this now. 1. Jaws works really well with the Team viewer application. Of course, it cant provide any feedback from the remote system but we'd expect that. 2. Sound is sent from the remote system via Team viewer so you can hear what's happening on the remote computers. 3. NVDA has a portable version that when extracted is 63MB. This works reasonably well on the remote computer. There's a bit of a lag and the clarity of the synthesizer leaves a lot of room for improvement but that's just the joy of using a remote connection. 4. I've been able to get NVDA down to 12.6MB compressed with a self extracter. This dumpsthe portable files into the tempdirectory and automatically starts NVDA. 5. This portable version is available in the archive at www.blindsysadmins.com/portable.exe<http://www.blindsysadmins.com/portable.exe> 6. This portable executable is not signed. I also don't have a trusted cert so I have no way of signing it. Therefore I have a problem runningthis remotely without assistance. It also presents a warning box that from an unsuspecting end users perspective looks very dodgy. Therefore until I find a way of signing this somehow, it's not an acceptable solution. So. There you have it. I'm almost there. If I can just get this to run without prompting the user to trust it then I'll be laughing. I've cut this down from 63MB to 12.5 MB by removing support that wn't be needed when providing help to someone over a remote connection. For example, you won't need Braille or access to messenger, AOL, sound forge or all the other applications in this category. I'm also about to write a Jaws script for team viewer that cuts out some of the extra verbosity spoken by Jaws when in the team viewer window. It would also be nice to press one letter on the keyboard to establish a remote connection without needing to tab around to find the right button. Efficiency for me is the key here. If I could find a way of getting the NVDA portable package down to a better size I'd be delighted but I'd probably need some input from the developers. For example, the portable package may be used to install NVDA onto a users PC. For the purposes of remote assistance, this functionality really isn't required. That might get rid of quite a lot of dependencies and make the archive even smaller. The aim is that within one minute of getting remote access you can read the remote systems interface.

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Just an Intro and a question about computer security.
by Lexi Aitkens 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

Hi, all. I am currently a student studying at Northumbria University in the UK. My degree is Ethical Hacking for computer Security and as part of the degree it heavily relies on security and pennitration testing using Linux and windows. I am hoping to use this degree as a way to gain employment within the Sys Admin field. Can anyone advise of the accessibility of Kali Linux or provide me with some idea of the accessibility of the applications used for network tasks? thanks Lexi

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system rolout
by Sean Randall 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Hi folks, I’m joining an ICT team where they’re about to buy in several new laptops to add to our network. I’ve not gotten a chance to see the setup yet but was wondering if any particular software is used for cloning and rollout in enterprise environments, what the access implications are etc. From a home user point of view, I’ve set up win7 machines without eyes to help, using narrator then installing JFW or whatever. One would assume some form of unattended installation takes place for a larger number of systems. It’ll be win 7 of some description, so any advice or input anyone has would be helpful; especially if I can get in before they have firmed up their procedures so I can build in access from the ground up. Cheers, Sean.

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system rolout
by Sean Randall 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Hi folks, I’m joining an ICT team where they’re about to buy in several new laptops to add to our network. I’ve not gotten a chance to see the setup yet but was wondering if any particular software is used for cloning and rollout in enterprise environments, what the access implications are etc. From a home user point of view, I’ve set up win7 machines without eyes to help, using narrator then installing JFW or whatever. One would assume some form of unattended installation takes place for a larger number of systems. It’ll be win 7 of some description, so any advice or input anyone has would be helpful; especially if I can get in before they have firmed up their procedures so I can build in access from the ground up. Cheers, Sean.

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Cisco IP phone 7942
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

Hello, I am sorry for the off topic post, but i wanted to know if someone has any experience with the above cisco IP phone and its accessibility. The company i am working for have just roled these phones out to everyone and seeing as they have a range of features, is there a way to make this functionality accessible? The phone that has been given to us is the Cisco IP phone 7942. I know that there are third party applications that can be installed on this phone, but i would be grateful for any more information on how to go about this. Regards, Chamandeep Singh

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