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PRTG
by Billy Irwin 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

Hi All, It is great to be back on the list. I have some news for all of you looking for a NMS solution. PRTG by Paessler is getting a GUI makeover and will be WCAG compliant with their new interface. I've been testing it in my production environment with much success. The GUI isn't complete by no means, but it is a great step in the right direction. They have committed to making their solution complaint. The interface is still in alpha. You can download their demo and work with it and send them feedback if you are interested. I will also add that they added WCAG to their public roadmap as well.. Best, Billy L. Irwin Sr. Cyber Security / Network Engineer County Government

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Create NFC accessibly?
by Can Kırca 27 Mar '23

27 Mar '23

Hello, Could you recommend a device and/or solution to write/read NFC tags? I've to create some NFC tags for our wireless system Thank you.

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Booting a CD or DVD from a running Linux system
by Steve Matzura 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

I have no possibility of accessing the BIOS on one of my machines--no screen (the system is hopelessly buried behind other equipment) and no one to read it even if I had one. This system booted from its DVD drive at one time, but now no longer does, and I don't know why. I can mount the DVD with the command: mount -t 9660 -o ro cdrom and show the filesystem with df, but if I reboot the system with the reboot command or turn it on from cold, seems like the DVD drive gets bypassed. I have also tried booting the system from a USB thumb drive suitably prepaired with Debian 11.6 by writing it with IMGBurn, and still no joy no matter which USB port I choose. Is there a way to force the CD/DVD drive to boot from maybe an installed boot manager package that I can install on my Debian 8 system so as to boot the Debian 11 DVD and regenerate my system?

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Serial port header block on mobo
by John G. Heim 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

I'm about to have a new PC built. So far, I have always been able to find a motherboard with a serial port header block. Does anybody know what incantation I can use while searching for a mobo with the serial header block? Searching for mobos with com1 has not worked. What is the technical name for that serial port on the mobo? -- John .G. Heim jheim(a)math.wisc.edu

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o365 admin tables not working with screen readers
by Kelly Prescott 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

I could not find the original message to keep the thread, but I remember seeing a message on this list about the sudden failure of screen readers in tables on the Microsoft O365 admin site. https://admin.microsoft.com I figured this would get cleared up soon, but it has been a few weeks, and no screen reader, JAWS, NVDA, or Narrator will work with this content anymore. I did send a email to the enterprise accessibility answer desk at Microsoft, but no answer yet. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to get around this? This makes the site unusable to me and that is a significant part of my job. I have been able to use powershell for some things, but that takes time as I have to lookup commands for all the things I need to do. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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Looking for a pentester
by David Mehler 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

Hello, Any pentesters on this list? I feel like I'm chasing a shadow and I need to ask a few questions. Thanks. Dave.

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Accessibility, audio and speech support, Kali Linux, Parrot OS, System Rescue CD, running from a USB multiboot disk
by David Mehler 08 Mar '23

08 Mar '23

Hello, Is anyone running one, sum, or all of the above distros specifically from either a single bootable USB stick or a multiboot USB stick? If so, how did you get audio and speech going in each of the distros on the disk? Also, if your using a multiboot do you use shared caching or persistent storage so that OS settings persist across reboots? Thanks. Dave.

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SoftPhone Wave
by Ibraam Wahib 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

hello dears sorry if this off topic please, any experience about Accessibility of Wave SoftPhone from Grandstreem? as an aigent & supervisor in call center. appreciate your support / advice if another group specialized in such topics. feel free to eMail me directly to not desturbe members. thanks very much

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Replacing Chocolatey with Winget
by Andrew Hodgson 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Hi. Seriously looking at replacing my scripts to use Winget now instead of Chocolatey. I notice there is even a package for JFW 2023 as well as NVDA in Winget. Has anyone actually had experience with using these packages? May play over the weekend. Thanks. Andrew.

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UK suppliers of Windows IoT?
by Mobeen Iqbal 12 Feb '23

12 Feb '23

Hello Everyone. Does anyone know of any UK based suppliers of Windows 10 IoT enterprise? I've found plenty of people in the US supplying it, but no one really seems to be supplying anything other than server licenses in the UK. Very best wishes, Mo.

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