November 2025 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Certificates with Pearson VUE
by Jakub Lukowicz 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

Hello, I'd like to take one of AWS certificates with Pearson VUE as provider. As a blind person I need some accomodations and I'm wondering if you have any experience with that. I read some information about what Pearson can provide and I'm going to contact them soon. I'm thinking about the following topics: I'd like to take this test online so I need to use NVDA with headphones. Is it allowed given that they run checks on my computer before exam to look for any unauthorized software. I know that they have their own browser to run those tests and I'd like to know if it's accessible for screen readers and whether I could test it before. I'm from Poland and I have documents confirming my disability in polish so do I need to translate them and provide to Pearson to prove that I'm blind. Lastly how this proctoring works? I know that they assign someone to watch me during the exam but are they aware that I'm using accomodations like headphones and screen reader? If you have any knowledge about above topics or any other suggestion please share. Best regards Jakub

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kvm consoles
by mattias jonsson 28 Nov '25

28 Nov '25

why are kvm consoles a piece of shit for blind users? it is near inaccessible at least dell idrac

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Reporting issues with Windows 11 and Surface Laptop installation media
by Andrew Hodgson 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

Hi. I wish to report a couple of issues, one isn't disability related but was wondering if you would be able to forward it to the correct department anyhow. Windows 11 media with no Narrator: I built Windows 11 installation media on 01/11 using the Media Creation tool and this didn't seem to contain Narrator. I have seen a number of other blind people reporting this issue. Is there any update on when this may get solved? Surface recovery media not bootable: I wanted to recover a surface laptop 4 using the latest factory image. The latest image I downloaded was: SurfaceLaptop4-Intel_BMR_172010_2025.819.10821033.zip I downloaded this on 11/11. The media doesn't seem to be bootable after writing it to a blank USB drive formatted in FAT32. I got round this in the end by downloading the recovery image for Windows 11 23H2 and booting from that. When it had booted into the recovery environment, I swapped the drive with the one containing the newer recovery image and was successfully able to recover the surface. I realise these recovery images don't contain Narrator but wanted to report this issue anyway. Thanks. Andrew.

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Win11 fresh install with narrator?
by David Mehler 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

Hello, Has anyone done a win11 fresh install with narrator speech? I just made a win11 installation iso and booted it tried to load narrator just like in the win10 installation process, and I didn't get narrator speech during the win11 process. Suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. -- Sent with Thunderbird

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windows server 2022 hyper-v
by mattias jonsson 02 Nov '25

02 Nov '25

are there any form of web interface for it?

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