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

Certificates with Pearson VUE
by Jakub Lukowicz 22 Dec '25

22 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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Windows Server 2022 core accessible?
by Armin Moradi 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

Hello, i have a task, where i should install a dhcp server with windows server core. I have sugcessfully installed windows Server 2022 core, but, i coult not enable audioservice. I coult only work with the NVDA OCR with in VMware, but that is not so nice. Can i as blind person work with windows server core? Regards Armin Moradi

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Proxmox for the blind
by Armin Moradi 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

Hello, i have a homeserver from supermicro. I using VMware 8 in the free version, i thinking about to order a dell T330 server as used hardware. My idear is, that i build an raid controller in. The latest VMware version is supported is version 6.5, i thinking about to use proxmox. Questions: 1. how accessible is proxmox it self? 2. When i install a windows machine, can i enable sound to hear, what is going on? Regards Armin Moradi

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Microsoft 365 Admin Center usage
by Eigeldinger Simon 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

Hi all, We just got our Microsoft 365 Admin Accounts for our own Tenant. In the future we will migrate to Microsoft 365 as well. I just had a look at the web interface for M365 Admin and Exchange. Seems the usage of those two have a lot of inconsistencies. Especially navigating through the interfaces, opening context menus, etc. Or also navigating the mailbox list. Are there any recommendations for settings or usage tips? Especially for efficient usage. I can use it but it takes much longer than i want it to. 😉 Any recommendations are appreciated. Greetings and thanks, Simon

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wsl, audio graphical setup
by David Mehler 02 Dec '25

02 Dec '25

Hello, Is anyone using WSL on a win10 or win11 system? If so are you using the graphical interface with audio? I've read much but the process of getting GUI audio and console audio seems convoluted, and I'm wanting to run a graphical environment in one of my WSL instances. Which graphical environment, desktop, window manager, etc is most orca-accessibly friendly? Is either speech-dispatcher or pulseaudio a viable option for console and/or GUI audio output? On the windows host side is either RDP or VNC network-accessible? Thanks. Dave. -- Sent with Thunderbird

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