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Accessing Windows PE environment
by jason.fayre＠cibc.com 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

Hi all, I posted this a few weeks ago, but don't think it went through for some reason. At my company, we use a Windows PE USB key to start the process of building a new Windows machine. I thought that Narrator was included in Windows PE, but I'm discovering that it isn't. Has anyone been able to get NVDA running on Windows PE? I know this was done years ago, but that was with a Windows 7 PE image. I'm going to take a crack at integrating NVDA, but wondered if anyone has experience with this. Thanks!

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Long shot: Anyone else having issues with GSuite Outlook plugin and JFW?
by Andrew Hodgson 03 Nov '22

03 Nov '22

Hi. I'm getting an issue with JFW 2023 when using a GSuite account with the Outlook GSuite plugin. When I open a message up Outlook crashes. It doesn't crash if I quit out of JFW or use Narrator, however its Outlook that is crashing not JFW. Anyone else using a similar configuration? Thanks. Andrew.

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removing packages from Synology DSM
by Timothy Spaulding 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

Hello All, Does anyone have a sure way of removing packages from Synology DSM 7.x? There are buttons that are unlabeled and also disabled in the Package Manager; and I also cannot find a menu to uninstall and existing package. When I select a package, it just seems to open it. Regards, Tim

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Accessible Internet security suite needed
by Christian 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Hi, Does anyone have any good tips on such software? I have been using ESET, but now it is not that accessible and I need something else. Many thanks for any help, Christian

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Completed online Microsoft exam with screen reader
by Andrew Hodgson 29 Oct '22

29 Oct '22

Hi. Just managed to pass the AZ104 exam with a screen reader. It took a bit of getting right but the exam worked in the end. There was an outstanding issue with the chat window as the proctor was trying to contact me as I was leaning outside the webcam view area and I didn't realise it so they had to interrupt the exam but we got it sorted. I will probably right up the process more later on and try and take another test to see if the process is any easier but its possible to do at least some of these exams online now. Thanks. Andrew.

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Microsoft exams with screen reader - actually scheduling the test
by Andrew Hodgson 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

Hi. I have now finally got permissions from Pearson Vue to take Microsoft exams with a screen reader. Has anyone else got this before and managed to successfully schedule a test? I tried to do this but when I tried to take the test the invigilator didn't have anything about me using a screen reader even though the accommodation was on my account. He believed I may need to go through a separate schedule process. I asked the guys last week about this but haven't heard anything back and need to take some exams to get myself on a client project. Thanks. Andrew.

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win10 upgrade broke wsl2 Ubuntu terminal cut paste
by David Mehler 16 Oct '22

16 Oct '22

Hello, I'm running the latest win10 upgrade. As of yesterday i.e. before I crashed for the night, I had wsl2 running with a Ubuntu setup that when I selected something in windows and did a control+c then a control+v in terminal the item would be pasted, for example a url passed to wget. I believe that the key also brought up a menu but am not 100% sure as I used it so rarely, point is it was working. Got moving today and saw that this machine had rebooted since it had to install an update, now the copy paste in Ubuntu terminal is no longer working and I'm not seeing how to get it back. Help welcome. Thanks. Dave.

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windows server 2019
by mattias 14 Oct '22

14 Oct '22

i plan to install server 2019 on a computer but wich server install contains narrator? _________________________ This email was transferred using an evaluation version of AXIGEN Mail Server.

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windows server install
by mattias 10 Oct '22

10 Oct '22

wich contains narrator? _________________________ This email was transferred using an evaluation version of AXIGEN Mail Server.

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RDP on windows Admin Centre.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

Greetings, Have any of you been able to use RDP through the Windows admin centre? I'm trying to do this through Azure hosted and Azure Arc virtual machines. But I'm not having any luck in relation to accessibility. Thanks

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please, remote support
by Ibraam Wahib 24 Jul '22

24 Jul '22

hello dears i need to help my friend to setup some programs / configure jaws and so on... which better remote support i could use? i think for nvda, but we need to configure jaws, i can't use jaws tandum for personal matter is it safe to use rim beta tister version? if this is good solution; how i start session, need different shortcut to access end-user machine? which shortcut could use to move to my machine not end-user during session? please send me user guide or just your help. thanks very much.

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Remote Incident Manager
by German A Fermin 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

Hell all, Just in case you all didn't know, a new Remote Incident Manager is in currently in public beta right now and they are looking for feedback. Having used the first RIM iteration as well as tandem and NVD remote, this so far is awesome. Latency is great, could use Jaws/NVDA and it doesn't matter what is on the other end. Although NVDA is the only one thus far where you can remote control a machine for a sighted user that does not have any screen readers installed. Obviously Narrator but then the target computer would hear that. With NVDA, they would not. They also just introduced unattended sessions. Thought this group would be interested. https://getrim.app/ Herman

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Reviewing the top line of the window in Windows Terminal
by Jason White 14 May '22

14 May '22

In Windows Terminal (running Windows 11, build 22000.613), with either JAWS or NVDA as the screen reader, the screen reader’s command to move the review cursor to the top of the window doesn’t always work as expected. If I clear the screen, or if I’m using some terminal application over ssh that does so, move to top of window does exactly that. However, if I run a PowerShell or Linux shell command that involves a pager (e.g., “man intro” in Linux or “get-help gci -full” in PowerShell), the results are different. After pressing Space one or more times to move through consecutive screens in the pager, the screen reader’s move to top of window command takes the review cursor at least to the first “page” in the pager – if not further back in my command history. I suspect there’s a scroll-back buffer maintaining the session history and that “top of window” is being taken as the start of the scroll-back buffer. The Mac OS terminal has exactly this issue – except that, on the Mac, there’s a “move to visible beginning” command in VoiceOver which is supposed to take you to the top of what is on screen, discounting the scroll-back. Admittedly, it doesn’t always work reliably. However, in Windows Terminal, it’s interesting that going to the top of the window actually works if a screen clear operation has recently been issued – or so it appears. Is there a way to move a review cursor in Windows Terminal to the actual first line currently displayed? Note that the GNOME and MATE terminals under Linux are the most accessible implementation that I’ve found in a graphical environment. In that case, moving the review cursor in Orca to the top of the window works, but I can also use keyboard commands in the terminal (Shift-Page-UP and Shift-Page-Down) to move through the scroll-back history.

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Accessible tool in Windows to recover Word files from flash storage
by Justin Romack 12 May '22

12 May '22

A colleague deleted some very important Word docson a flash drive and all of the top hits on Google turn of file recovery apps that seem very dodgey - and not at all accessible. Do y'all have a tool you would recommend for this task? Best, J Sent from my iPhone (and most likely transcribed by Siri)

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JFW 2022 with Win11 Notepad
by Andrew Hodgson 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Hi. Anyone using Notepad from Win11 (it's the one that works with dark mode) with JFW 2022? I'm noticing a few oddities with this. Firstly when reading using the arrow keys when I hit the bottom line of the document it seems to read out the prior line if that is blank. My files usually end with a blank line so I get this quite a bit. When using alt+letter to get into a menu it doesn't always seem to take. For example I quite often do alt+F then S to save the document even though that is not the quickest shortcut. I am finding the document doesn't always save then when I quit out so have to be careful. I get the same behaviour when doing searches using alt+E and F, my search term then types into the main text. Thanks. Andrew.

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Re: Microsoft Teams: Are there some accessibility tips and tricks?
by Ryan Shugart 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

Hi: If you are a JAWS user, I recommend Doug Lee’s scripts for Microsoft Teams<https://dlee.org/teams/>. I use these myself and they are helpful, there are commands that help you move around the interface quickly. They will supplement but not replace Vispero’s scripts. There are also some scripts by Bryan Hartgen, but those are not free and I have never used them so can’t speak to them. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Eigeldinger Simon <simon.eigeldinger(a)hohenems.at> Reply-To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 at 10:51 PM To: "blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org" <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Microsoft Teams: Are there some accessibility tips and tricks? Hi all, We just started with MS Teams over here. Anyone knows some accessibility tips and tricks which might be interesting? Or any other tips and tricks i might find useful? Greetings and thanks, Simon _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org

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Microsoft Ability Summit 2022
by Ryan Shugart 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

Hi all: Apologies if this is inappropriate for the list but I wanted to do a quick call out that registration is open for Microsoft’s 2022 Ability Summit. Quite a few people on here use Microsoft products as part of their job so I figured there would be some interest. The summit is on May 10TH from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM pacific daylight time. The summit is free and open to anyone with an interest in Microsoft’s accessibility journey. You can go here to learn more<http://abilitysummit2022.eventcore.com/>. Thanks. Ryan

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Microsoft Teams: Are there some accessibility tips and tricks?
by Eigeldinger Simon 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Hi all, We just started with MS Teams over here. Anyone knows some accessibility tips and tricks which might be interesting? Or any other tips and tricks i might find useful? Greetings and thanks, Simon

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Free or cheap cloud based monitoring tools
by Andrew Hodgson 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

Hi. Anyone had experience with cloud based monitoring tools? I'm looking for something that can ping a health endpoint on a web server and if we get an error back it alerts me. I had done something similar from my own machine a while ago but want something cloud based like Pingdom, Pagerduty etc. Preferably free or low cost. Thanks. Andrew.

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OT: Braille for IT?
by John G. Heim 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

I am working on a program that takes a string of text and generates a 3D printer file that prints the text in braille. I'm using liblouis to generate the ASCII braille and it generated, ",,x" for the string "IT". Like in the title, "IT Manager", it made the IT be a double capital sign and then the letter x. Yes, an x all by itself is the word "it". But is that shortcut legitimate braille for an acronym? If I was doing it by hand, I'd have done the double cap sign and then the letters i and t. PS: As a proof of concept, I'm trying to make a plaque for my manager's office door, if I can. I thought she'd get a kick out of it. -- ### John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim(a)math.wisc.edu

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duo mobile admin panel
by Kathryn Jedynak 05 Feb '22

05 Feb '22

Hello everyone: In the duo mobile admin panel when a user has multiple phones listed you can move the one they want to use to the top of the list. Is there a way to do this with a screen reader? The only way I found is to do it with the mouse. Please let me know if there is an accessible way to perform this task. Thanks, Kathryn

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Professional qualifications
by Andrew Hodgson 22 Jan '22

22 Jan '22

Hi. Just wondering if anyone has done professional qualifications lately where you have been able to take tests from home reliably with a screen reader? I have heard good things about the Salesforce exams though havendon't want to take those myself. I have potentially given up on doing any more Microsoft exams due to not being able to find a test centre who can accommodate my reader requirements, looking to see if other exams may be easier to do from home. Thanks. Andrew.

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screen reader Accessibility with bitlocker
by Kathryn Jedynak 15 Jan '22

15 Jan '22

Hello: I would like to know is there a way to make bit locker accessible with a screen reader. Currently, we set up a passcode for our users and they have to type in that passcode in order to boot their computer. However, currently there is no screen reader accessibility during this process. Is there a way to make this process accessible? If not, what other solutions are out there for bit locker accessibility? Thanks in advance. Kathryn

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FW: utilities for drive recovery help
by Andrew Hodgson 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Sorry I missed this email which I think should have gone to the list. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: David Mehler <dave.mehler(a)gmail.com> Sent: 29 December 2021 19:41 To: Andrew Hodgson <andrew(a)hodgson.io> Subject: utilities for drive recovery help Hello, I've got two drives that are failing, both NTFS-data drives. I've atempted using spinrite, but even with be my eyes help it's not proving practical, I have to get some local knowledgeable help which won't be for a while. This brings me to tarch, or grml, or some bootable distro. I've got a bootable USB drive with a system called Ventoy on it so all I have to do is drop the iso on and boot it, arrow the appropriate times and enter and it boots. My problem is enabling speech, it seems like every bootable distro is different in this regard is this true? The goal, once booted with speech, is to get spinrite-like functionality, check the sectors of these drives, organize them as needed, so I can then take an image of the drive, ensuring it's good and image that to the new drive. Any recommendations for utilities that would pull this off? Thanks. Dave.

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What my job?
by John G. Heim 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

I'm retiring. Want my job? it's a great job. https://jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/511554/system-engineer-ii The pay is not great but the benefits and job security are outstanding. Initial interviews will be via Zoom. But you'd probably have to travel to Madison for the final interview. And you'd have to move here if you get the job. Madison is always in the top most livable cities in the country. -- ### John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim(a)math.wisc.edu

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