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Gmail users kicked off the list
by Andrew Hodgson 22 Sep '23

22 Sep '23

Hi. Due to someone marking messages from this list as spam all the Gmail users have been kicked off. I've re-enabled delivery for all users now since I don't know who was marking the messages as spam. If you want to be removed from the list please speak to me and I can arrange it. Thanks. Andrew.

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Heads up: Problems with Pearson Vue exams and Jaws
by Andrew Hodgson 15 Sep '23

15 Sep '23

Hi. Tried to take a Microsoft exam today but for some reason none of the content of the test was speaking even though the check-in process worked. I last got through some tests in January, so either a Jaws or Pearson test update has broken things. When the test launched all I could hear was Chromium Window. I have a contact in the accommodations team so will try and push to get this sorted and will let you guys know here any updates. Thanks. Andrew.

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Mounting a Networked Drive on Debin 11 or 12
by Steve Matzura 13 Sep '23

13 Sep '23

I'm just about to upgrade to Debian 12, but if I could get this answered for 11, especially if it's the same on 12, I'd be happy. I used to do this on Debian 8, but apparently things have changed. No surprise there, but I can't figure out from research exactly what the change is. The following line in /etc/fstab worked on Debian 8: //192.168.1.156/BigVol1 /mnt/bigvol1 cifs _netdev,username=<the-username>,password=<the-password>,ro 0 0 After a reboot, the directory /mnt/bigvol1 is there, but not the resource to which it points. Should I be using cifs-utils and using its fstab syntax?

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Raspberry Pi 4, Kali Linux headless install/configuration
by David Mehler 17 Aug '23

17 Aug '23

Hello, Does anyone have a headless install of Kali Linux going? I was doubting my hardware then I put a Debian distro on this new sdxc card via Raspberry Pi Imager, added in an empty "ssh" file and a WiFi wpa_supplicant.conf configuration file, and it popped right up. Further googling shows that in the Kali image after I think they said 2022 this system did not work anymore or had been disabled, but I've not been able to find out the new method. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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Vibor
by ashudrya＠gmail.com 26 Jul '23

26 Jul '23

Hello, Anybody had any luck making vibor on windows desktop accessible? No matter what I try, JAWS, NVDA or Narrator, nothing seems to be working. I am trying googling for JAWS scripts to no avail. -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com

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CCNA Exam, packet tracer
by David Mehler 26 Jul '23

26 Jul '23

Hello, Do we have anyone who has taken and/or passed the CCNA exam? If so how did you handle packet tracer? Is it accessible? Thanks. Dave.

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help us make AI more inclusive
by Ryan Shugart 25 Jul '23

25 Jul '23

Hello everyone, I wanted to pass the following along as I felt there may be some on this list who may be interested. If so, please fill out the survey linked below. I can say some of those "future" opportunities are coming up pretty quickly. Feel free to forward on as appropriate. We are working on improving our Azure AI development experiences to make them as inclusive as possible for all developers. We want to make sure the age of AI is accessible to all developers! If you use Azure AI or a similar technology as part of your work and identify as having a disability, we would love to hear from you. Please fill in this sign-up form<https://forms.office.com/r/6GZhZE9Q2N> and we hope to reach out to you with future research opportunities. Thanks a lot. Ryan Ryan Shugart Senior Program Manager, Cloud+AI Accessibility Microsoft Corporation 425-705-1262

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JAWS and windows 10
by Zameer Mahomed 14 Jul '23

14 Jul '23

Hi List, For those using jaws and windows 10, Do you perhaps have some advice for me please, with the following issues I experience below? I find that JAWS is not reading search results in the start menu, I don't hear items in combo boxes, I'm not able to review text in edit boxes in apps like Whatsapp, and I can't use the Microsoft store reliably. It sounds like a video accessibility driver issue but I'm not too sure. Clean install of windows 10 up to date. Ensured that I'm using the correct and up to date display driver. Have done a reinstall of jaws, latest version. I've enabled the start menu, access out of process option. Use accessibility display driver for capture option is checked. This is also happening on my work machine using windows 10 but I could get by with it for now. The only reason why I am still sticking with windows 10 is because I find that there is less of a lag compared to windows 11, where all works just fine. My home machine does not support windows 11 officially, but if I install it anyway, all seems to work fine. Any help would be much appreciated, apologies for posting such an unrelated question to this type of list. Kind Regards

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Accessible encryption windows hard/ssd/thumb drives at use and at rest?
by David Mehler 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

Hello, I just dodged a big bullet, which could have had identity-stealing implications if I hadn't got lucky. That being the case I'm looking for accessible encryption methods, free is best, for windows drives, complete drives, hdd/ssd/m.2/USB/sd/if I plug it in it's a drive. I'm needing it to be accessible when the system is booted up in windows, but if the machine is shut down or powered off, basically if the drive is removed it's at-rest encryption so that if someone were to pull it out of a computer (which happened) they would not be able to read anything on it, so I'd be out a drive and not the valuable data that goes with it. Thanks. Dave.

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Output of continuous integration (CI) systems
by Andrew Hodgson 05 Jul '23

05 Jul '23

Hi. Anyone got any tips for accessing the console output from a CI system job run? I'm talking about Azure Devops and Github Actions which both have the same issues. I have fairly verbose jobs that I need to get info from fairly quickly. Back in the golden days I could open the console output from the job in Edge or whatever and do a find on page using JFW's find feature, and the piece of text I wanted would come up and I could arrow around to read the log. These days both of these systems are doing something different. I typically can't just do a search anymore on the log window. In Azure Devops I can view a raw log, but it has timestamps which I have to skip through in order to get to what I want. In Github actions I have to download the log locally and go through it there. Arrowing through the log in the log viewer doesn't help either, I can sometimes turn off virtual PC cursor and get text out that way. Even worse is when I want to copy text from the log to the clipboard, its virtually impossible for me to select what I want and do ctrl+c to get it in the clipboard and elsewhere. Anyone got any tips for navigating these systems? Thanks. Andrew.

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