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dell venue 8pro keyboard cover
by mattias 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

exist any?

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RRAS: Windows Server 2012 R2/Windows Server 10
by Katherine Moss 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Hi all, I'm in the middle of an interesting issue here, and this is more of a question about getting things working rather than accessibility. I'm pretty sure advice is allowed? Anyway, I've got two sites, one in Somerville, and the other in Wilmington, Mass. All of our servers run Windows Server 2012 R2 for the moment, while one of the RRAS servers, the one here in Wilmington may run Windows server 10 eventually. The issue is as follows: I need to connect the two sites together so that members of the one site can securely access resources in the other site and have it be transparent to them. I want both sites to appear to VPN clients as a single site, and I know that RRAS can do this. Does anyone have any experience with this? I don't want to use Direct Access because servers, especially my domain controller, has to be connected to the VPN for replication purposes. Not to mention, there are file server resources here, and I want the members of the Somerville site to be able to access them; I cannot forward out port 445, Comcast blocks it, though SMB over the internet's asking for trouble anyway. So, if anyone has any experience with this, if they've ever gotten it working (too many people make fun of me, rather than trying to help me, since we can't use hardware VPN, can't afford it), that would be great.

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jaws
by Josh k 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

if I had an authorized jaws, do you think I could make any money providing remote jaws support using tandom as a side very part time job?

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RRAS: Windows Server 2012 R2/Windows Server 10
by Katherine Moss 04 Nov '14

04 Nov '14

Hi all, I'm in the middle of an interesting issue here, and this is more of a question about getting things working rather than accessibility. I'm pretty sure advice is allowed? Anyway, I've got two sites, one in Somerville, and the other in Wilmington, Mass. All of our servers run Windows Server 2012 R2 for the moment, while one of the RRAS servers, the one here in Wilmington may run Windows server 10 eventually. The issue is as follows: I need to connect the two sites together so that members of the one site can securely access resources in the other site and have it be transparent to them. I want both sites to appear to VPN clients as a single site, and I know that RRAS can do this. Does anyone have any experience with this? I don't want to use Direct Access because servers, especially my domain controller, has to be connected to the VPN for replication purposes. Not to mention, there are file server resources here, and I want the members of the Somerville site to be able to access them; I cannot forward out port 445, Comcast blocks it, though SMB over the internet's asking for trouble anyway. So, if anyone has any experience with this, if they've ever gotten it working (too many people make fun of me, rather than trying to help me, since we can't use hardware VPN, can't afford it), that would be great.

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Backup solution.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Good morning, Do you have any preferred backup solutions? I need to backup about 1.5GB of data using incremental and full backups. A self contained backup solution or an appliance would be fine. Lllll It needs to be accessible of course. Any suggestions?

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Backup solution.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 03 Nov '14

03 Nov '14

Good morning, Do you have any preferred backup solutions? I need to backup about 1.5GB of data using incremental and full backups. A self contained backup solution or an appliance would be fine. Lllll It needs to be accessible of course. Any suggestions?

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introduction new member
by Josh k 02 Nov '14

02 Nov '14

Hi I found this list while I was looking for information on NVDA and teamViewer. My name is Josh Kennedy and I am from a small town in Pennsylvania near Harrisburg. I attended the Colorado Center for the blind for independent living training in 2008. Then in 2011 I got a-plus and network-plus certifications so I could work at a help desk. I got a job, and then lost it due to family issues so never got the chance to work. My certifications are now expired and I don't have the money to renew them. Public transit is pretty much non-existent around here. I'd like to know if there are any companies who hire IT people to do a combination of phone and tech support from home? Also I have a very part time side job. I clean and fix up computers for people around town. I do this by reformatting machines when needed using a talking windows disk. Or I use Ubuntu when needed to do more advanced work. I was thinking of expanding by offering remote support to jaws users using jaws tandom and charging a small fee for training and remote support. But I'm not sure how popular that would be and I only have a jaws demo and cannot afford jaws. And as far as I know I cannot buy jaws on just $150 per month.

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] dell venue8keyboard
by curtis jackson 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

i had and purchased the key board it will not close. some of the keys zuch as dash are not easily accessibilible Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 21, 2014, at 11:52 AM, mattias <mj(a)mjw.se> wrote: > > anyone own the venue8 with the keyboard? > seems you cant close the cover with keyboard inside? > > > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list > Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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dell venue8keyboard
by mattias 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

anyone own the venue8 with the keyboard? seems you cant close the cover with keyboard inside?

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Raspberry Pi
by Greg B. 14 Oct '14

14 Oct '14

Hello all, I would like to get started with Raspberry Pi. Can anyone give me pointers on how to get started and what I should look for in a Raspberry Pi device? Thanks, Greg B.

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Accessibility of linux
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Hi all, I keep getting advised by other developers that Linux is a better platform to develop under compared to Windows. I wanted to explore options for how Linux is accessible and what is available? I've never used Linux so any advice on how things work and how to get setup would be appreciated. I would still like to use my windows machine for day to day work. But would like to have Linux either as a separate installation or a virtual machine. Thanks for any help you can give with this. Regards, Chamandeep Singh

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Accessible malware scanner
by Chris Smart 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Malware Bytes 1.75 works just fine. Go into settings and tell it not to update itself automatically. You can still update the malware database it uses and stay safe. At 09:17 AM 10/6/2014, you wrote: >Does anyone have an accessible malware scanner. Malware Bytes is >still inaccessible. Anybody know of a good one you can navigate >with any screen reader? >_______________________________________________ >Blind-sysadmins mailing list >Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org >http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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freebsd
by mattias 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

i play around with a freebsd 10 or 9 and compile apaceh2 after a while a text based dialog come up with a few choices this dialogs worked fine with older freebsd versions i run from putty on windows i can see the choices in the dialog with jaws cursor but i cant select things

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Accessible malware scanner
by Troy Hergert 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Does anyone have an accessible malware scanner. Malware Bytes is still inaccessible. Anybody know of a good one you can navigate with any screen reader?

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Accessible malware scanner
by Troy Hergert 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Does anyone have an accessible malware scanner. Malware Bytes is still inaccessible. Anybody know of a good one you can navigate with any screen reader?

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Accessibility of linux
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 05 Oct '14

05 Oct '14

Hi all, I keep getting advised by other developers that Linux is a better platform to develop under compared to Windows. I wanted to explore options for how Linux is accessible and what is available? I've never used Linux so any advice on how things work and how to get setup would be appreciated. I would still like to use my windows machine for day to day work. But would like to have Linux either as a separate installation or a virtual machine. Thanks for any help you can give with this. Regards, Chamandeep Singh

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is itpro.tv accessible
by Troy Hergert 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

I would like to start taking some of the courses up at Itpro.tv Has anyone used them before and are the courses, exercizes and tests accessible to screen readers? Thanks.

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is itpro.tv accessible
by Troy Hergert 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

I would like to start taking some of the courses up at Itpro.tv Has anyone used them before and are the courses, exercizes and tests accessible to screen readers? Thanks.

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Anyone have an accessible DBAN clone?
by Steve Matzura 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Love the folks at BlancCo as I do, they're totally uncommunicative regarding accessibility concerns and issues. For instance, I'd love to incorporate NVDA into their boot stream so I can read and respond to the operation screens. HHas anyone tried doing this, or is there a better solution than DBan?

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Creating a custom Talking Win PE
by Christian 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

Hi all, Since I know that some of you have done this, where can I find more information about creating a custom Talking Win PE build? Many thanks, Christian

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Android in a Windows Virtual Machine
by Steve Matzura 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

Is it possible? If so, what development tools are there once inside?

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Script to read column headers in SQL management studio.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

Good morning, A problem that I've been having for far too long is reading column headers in sQL management studio. If I just opened the table and showed everything in it the column headers were spoken / Brailled however for a large table, that's very wasteful and also not particularly useful. I was given a tip during the week to use GetFocusRect so using this, I quickly wrote up the following scripts. Associate these with keys other than left and right or you will need to put a check in to ensure you are in the right control. I'm only thinking of this requirement as I'm writing this Email so I haven't done that yet. There are a few things I had to do to work around two problems. 1. I've had to turn speech off while I'm moving to the next cell. Even though NextCharacter shouldn't speak the next cell it rambles a bit. 2. I've had to put a pause in because the getFocusRect function was firing too quick and getting the previous rectangle. 3. I know I shouldn't be using SayString. Script SpeakNextColumnHeader () var int Left, int Right, int Top, int Bottom, string sText SpeechOff () NextCharacter () Pause () GetObjectRect(left,right,top,bottom,true,1) bottom =470 let sText = GetTextInRect(left,top,right,bottom,0,IgnoreColor,IgnoreColor,true) SpeechOn () SayString (sText) SayWord () EndScript Script SpeakPreviousColumnHeader () var int Left, int Right, int Top, int Bottom, string sText SpeechOff () PriorCharacter () Pause () GetObjectRect(left,right,top,bottom,true,1) bottom =470 let sText = GetTextInRect(left,top,right,bottom,0,IgnoreColor,IgnoreColor,true) SpeechOn () SayString (sText) SayWord () EndScript You'll need the usual includes for HJConst etc. Darragh

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Script to read column headers in SQL management studio.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

Good morning, A problem that I've been having for far too long is reading column headers in sQL management studio. If I just opened the table and showed everything in it the column headers were spoken / Brailled however for a large table, that's very wasteful and also not particularly useful. I was given a tip during the week to use GetFocusRect so using this, I quickly wrote up the following scripts. Associate these with keys other than left and right or you will need to put a check in to ensure you are in the right control. I'm only thinking of this requirement as I'm writing this Email so I haven't done that yet. There are a few things I had to do to work around two problems. 1. I've had to turn speech off while I'm moving to the next cell. Even though NextCharacter shouldn't speak the next cell it rambles a bit. 2. I've had to put a pause in because the getFocusRect function was firing too quick and getting the previous rectangle. 3. I know I shouldn't be using SayString. Script SpeakNextColumnHeader () var int Left, int Right, int Top, int Bottom, string sText SpeechOff () NextCharacter () Pause () GetObjectRect(left,right,top,bottom,true,1) bottom =470 let sText = GetTextInRect(left,top,right,bottom,0,IgnoreColor,IgnoreColor,true) SpeechOn () SayString (sText) SayWord () EndScript Script SpeakPreviousColumnHeader () var int Left, int Right, int Top, int Bottom, string sText SpeechOff () PriorCharacter () Pause () GetObjectRect(left,right,top,bottom,true,1) bottom =470 let sText = GetTextInRect(left,top,right,bottom,0,IgnoreColor,IgnoreColor,true) SpeechOn () SayString (sText) SayWord () EndScript You'll need the usual includes for HJConst etc. Darragh

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Hyper-V enhanced session mode.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Good afternoon, Using Hyper-V on a workstation has never appealed to me but I need to do it today. I was hoping to use enhanced session mode to divert audio, the clipboard etc to the host. Kind of the way exclusive mode works in VMware world I assume. However, I'm having trouble getting it to work. Is it only exclusively for Windows 2008 guests or can it work on a Windows 7 guest? I've enabled it on the server, I've enabled guest features on the VM and the Remote Desktop service is running. Still, it's not available. I must be missing something. Any ideas? Thanks Darragh

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Hyper-V enhanced session mode.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Good afternoon, Using Hyper-V on a workstation has never appealed to me but I need to do it today. I was hoping to use enhanced session mode to divert audio, the clipboard etc to the host. Kind of the way exclusive mode works in VMware world I assume. However, I'm having trouble getting it to work. Is it only exclusively for Windows 2008 guests or can it work on a Windows 7 guest? I've enabled it on the server, I've enabled guest features on the VM and the Remote Desktop service is running. Still, it's not available. I must be missing something. Any ideas? Thanks Darragh

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