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Accessibility in the work place
by Billy Irwin 25 Jul '16

25 Jul '16

Guys, I've had to write a report based on my job that I referenced earlier. Here is a very rough draft but I wanted to get this out to my fellow SysAdmins. Beginning on June 20th, 2016, I started an internship with VC3 Inc. who provides Information Technology services for various local governments and private companies in the Southeast U.S. These services include but are not limited to Virtual Desktop Interfaces and Physical Systems Administration. The internship promised to end with full time employment as a Systems Engineer with their South Carolina Team. This position was exactly what I was looking for long term. This position was responsible for Server Administration, Network Administration and Design for over 200 different agencies over 3 or so states. Unfortunatley, when I started the postion, accessibility became to be a large barrier in completing my dutires. I first started out by training in the First Call Resolution Team that is responsible for taking the initial calls from customers with their various technical issues like resetting passwords and creating user accounts. While in this team, I was t training on the billing and ticketing system known as ConnectWise. I found this software completely inaccessibile to JAWS and Zoomtext. I spent several days trying to use different techniques that I thought would work in order to allow me full access to this fotware. Eventually, I I found and App for the Apple IOS and tried it with no success. One application would allow for limited access to some features and the other wouldn't. While working through those issues I was introduced to another application called Labtech which is responsible for remotely administering all systems maintained by VC3. This software too was very inaccessible and was virtually useless to me. As before, I began experimenting with it's settings and with no luck again, found myself really struggling to do anything productive. During all this, I reached out to the software vendor along side VC3. At the end of the internship, we were unable to get the software vendor to see how important this issue is for my employment. The only good thing that came from this internship is networking with other individuals that are in my field. They were able to see that I am well versed in my field of Information Technology. Sadly at this time, I am unable to recommend others to attempt employment at VC3 who have a visual impairment.

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Accessibility in the work place
by Billy Irwin 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Guys, I've had to write a report based on my job that I referenced earlier. Here is a very rough draft but I wanted to get this out to my fellow SysAdmins. Beginning on June 20th, 2016, I started an internship with VC3 Inc. who provides Information Technology services for various local governments and private companies in the Southeast U.S. These services include but are not limited to Virtual Desktop Interfaces and Physical Systems Administration. The internship promised to end with full time employment as a Systems Engineer with their South Carolina Team. This position was exactly what I was looking for long term. This position was responsible for Server Administration, Network Administration and Design for over 200 different agencies over 3 or so states. Unfortunatley, when I started the postion, accessibility became to be a large barrier in completing my dutires. I first started out by training in the First Call Resolution Team that is responsible for taking the initial calls from customers with their various technical issues like resetting passwords and creating user accounts. While in this team, I was t training on the billing and ticketing system known as ConnectWise. I found this software completely inaccessibile to JAWS and Zoomtext. I spent several days trying to use different techniques that I thought would work in order to allow me full access to this fotware. Eventually, I I found and App for the Apple IOS and tried it with no success. One application would allow for limited access to some features and the other wouldn't. While working through those issues I was introduced to another application called Labtech which is responsible for remotely administering all systems maintained by VC3. This software too was very inaccessible and was virtually useless to me. As before, I began experimenting with it's settings and with no luck again, found myself really struggling to do anything productive. During all this, I reached out to the software vendor along side VC3. At the end of the internship, we were unable to get the software vendor to see how important this issue is for my employment. The only good thing that came from this internship is networking with other individuals that are in my field. They were able to see that I am well versed in my field of Information Technology. Sadly at this time, I am unable to recommend others to attempt employment at VC3 who have a visual impairment.

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Accessible Nas solutions?
by Mobeen Iqbal 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Hello Everyone. Please forgive the cross posting. I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the following. I'm thinking of purchasing a nas solution for my home so users files are backed up in real time. Ideally, I'd like a solution where all files are stored locally i.e to internal hard drives, and you can install a dropbox stile app on each computer and specify folders to automatically back up. QNAP, Synology, Netgear, DLink and Buffalo all seem to be manufacturing Nas solutions. I've tried Synology in the past and wasn't a huge fan of their web interface. You couldn't do a lot with it at all which is a real shame as the devices have a lot of functionality. My primary concern is web interface accessibility. It would be nice to have a manufacturer that provides a decent web interface and that take accessibility seriously to the point that they're not breaking things every 2 minutes. I could build my own but i've then got the concern of how reliable the real time backup apps are in a home made solution. So, in short does anyone have any thoughts on which devices you've found to be accessible/reliable? iOS and android access is not essential. What web interfaces have you been able to access with screen readers? I look forward to your thoughts. Many thanks in advance for all comments, I'll do my best to respond but may not respond to everyone individually. All the best, Mo.

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Working for Apple
by Barry Toner 21 Jul '16

21 Jul '16

Hi, I am due to start a job with a company he is contracted happening scenes in customer services on 1 August. I was wondering, if any of you are familiar with apples internal software? And heart accessible or not it is with voice-over. I believe there is a chat software is called Avalon Thanks, Barry. Sent from my iPhone

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Anyone has compiled version of nvda remote server for windows?
by Mario Perčinić 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

Hey guys. Some of you on the list are probably familiar with this package available on github: https://github.com/Technow-es/NVDARemoteServer basically it is multi platform nvda remote server which can be run on on windows, linux and mac as well. Does anyone have last version of the program compiled for windows? Thanks. -- Mario Percinic Accessibility consultant mario.percinic(a)gmail.com Skype: acousticman Twitter: @MarioPercinic GSM: +385922630259

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Credential Management
by Billy Irwin 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Hello All, I am new to the list, but I had a question. I am a JAWS user who has been in the I.T. field for over 16 years give or take. I do web hosting on the side as well. I have an accessibility issue which I will address in a different thread, but anyways... For the moment, I was wondering for all you Network/Server Admins did you use any accessibile Password/Credential Managers? A company I worked for used Remote Desktop Manager to do this but I find it very useless using JAWS and I just don't feel like trying to use ZoomText or Magic just for this app. Any thoughts? Thanks Kindly, Billy

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Credential Management
by Billy Irwin 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Hello All, I am new to the list, but I had a question. I am a JAWS user who has been in the I.T. field for over 16 years give or take. I do web hosting on the side as well. I have an accessibility issue which I will address in a different thread, but anyways... For the moment, I was wondering for all you Network/Server Admins did you use any accessibile Password/Credential Managers? A company I worked for used Remote Desktop Manager to do this but I find it very useless using JAWS and I just don't feel like trying to use ZoomText or Magic just for this app. Any thoughts? Thanks Kindly, Billy

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Exam Software
by Greg B. 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

Hello everybody, I need to get a Security Plus certification as soon as I can because the lack of it is keeping me from getting a few security administrator positions that I have applied for. I have tried the Test King demo and that just did not work with jaws. Does anyone have something they could recommend? I would be happy with online study exams but I am not opposed to studying pdf material. Thanks, Greg B. Email: gbobo(a)woh.rr.com <mailto:gbobo@woh.rr.com>

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DNN community needs more blind developers and administrators
by Katherine Moss 04 Jul '16

04 Jul '16

Hi all. I just figured I'd throw this out there. I decided to put all my community sites on DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) in order to persuade the DNn community to care more about accessibility as a whole and to learn development skills against in order to develop compliant themes in the forge, or that's my eventual project. Many community members have assisted, so now I need to figure out where they want their contributions, in order that eventually the DNN community will see them as important and replace their own default crappy edit menu (requires a mouse over to activate it, and it's not anything that has keyboard access by default), in the default install. I pln to firther enhance accessibility soon.

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DNN community needs more blind developers and administrators
by Katherine Moss 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

Hi all. I just figured I'd throw this out there. I decided to put all my community sites on DNN (formerly DotNetNuke) in order to persuade the DNn community to care more about accessibility as a whole and to learn development skills against in order to develop compliant themes in the forge, or that's my eventual project. Many community members have assisted, so now I need to figure out where they want their contributions, in order that eventually the DNN community will see them as important and replace their own default crappy edit menu (requires a mouse over to activate it, and it's not anything that has keyboard access by default), in the default install. I pln to firther enhance accessibility soon.

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