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PRTG Network Monitor
by Billy Irwin 11 Feb '23

11 Feb '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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Accessing Microsoft 365 mail from Linux
by Jason White 02 Feb '23

02 Feb '23

What is currently my best and most screen reader accessible option for working with Microsoft 365-hosted mail (Exchange Online) when running Linux? I’ve enabled IMAP and SMTP access in the Exchange Online configuration. It’s my Microsoft 365 subscription, which I recently upgraded to include e-mail, Microsoft Teams, etc., and intended for professional/career-related use. However, and for good reasons, Microsoft now requires the use of OAuth 2.0 authorization for both IMAP and SMTP connections. My options so far appear to be as follows. Mozilla Thunderbird, which I’m already using with my Linux-hosted IMAP account. Unfortunately, authentication in Microsoft 365 is currently an open bug which is being actively worked on by Mozilla, introduced in the most recent Thunderbird release. I expect this is my best option, and I can afford to wait a while for them to resolve the bug. Evolution: not very accessible with a screen reader, as I recall. DavMail: This is another possibility. It essentially accesses Microsoft servers and makes mail, contacts and calendar available locally via their respective protocols (IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV/CardDAV). I don’t know how reliably it works with Microsoft’s current authentication and authorization scheme, though. The outlook.office365.com <http://outlook.office365.com/> Web interface: probably workable, but not ideal - I would prefer to have both of my mail accounts in the same client. Comments welcome.

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Microsoft certification exam accommodations survey
by Ryan Shugart 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

Hi all: Earlier I had posted to this group about a survey Microsoft was running regarding accommodation's for certification exams. This survey had been scheduled to end on 12/16, however the date has been extended until 12/31. If anyone is interested, you can take the survey here<https://forms.office.com/r/XY7S7JgKL6>. My apologies for the late notice of the extension, I have been on vacation for the past few weeks. If there are any accessibility issues taking the survey, please reach out to the Enterprise Disability Answer Desk<mailto:edad@microsoft.com> for assistance. Thanks a lot. Ryan Ryan Shugart Senior Program Manager, Cloud+AI Accessibility Microsoft Corporation 425-705-1262

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Certification Exam
by gbobo＠woh.rr.com 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

Hello All, I passed my Security+ exam yesterday. The exam was not accessible, so I had to use a reader/recorder. I got lucky and the reader was really good. Overall, my experience with the testing center was very good. I had the exam room to myself. The actual test was very shitty. It began with 4 performance based questions I found very frustrating, some of the questions were so long that I had to have the questions read over and over. The reader even thought the questions were very long and unfair in some cases because I had to memorize the scenario while trying to pick the answer. At one point the question was so long, the reader and I agreed that it gave us headaches. My experience with the reader was good and I lucked out with a good one. I hope accessibility for tests will get better because there are more coming up in my future. Greg B.

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Test mail from new instance
by Andrew Hodgson 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Hi. Testing mail from new larger VPS as I want to run a Mastodan instance from the same machine. A few things may be off as the Mailman now uses a different backend so I can share stuff with the Mastadon instance. Thanks. Andrew.

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study around Microsoft exam acomidations
by Ryan Shugart 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

Hi: I wanted to mention this to the list as there has been some interest. I am personally not connected with the team running this study but it is being done in partnership with a team at Microsoft. If you have taken a Microsoft exam with or without accommodations in the past 3 years, you may be interested in participating in this study<https://accessibilityuserresearchcollective.org/study-128a-microsoft-accomm…> regarding the accommodations process around Microsoft certification and licensure exams. Thanks. Ryan Ryan Shugart Senior Program Manager, Cloud+AI Accessibility Microsoft Corporation 425-705-1262

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Chrome took out my history and bookmarks
by David Mehler 06 Nov '22

06 Nov '22

Hello, I'm not sure if I'm more upset with the week I've had or the chrome topping I got last evening. Chrome did a purge of unused profiles, it smoked *all* of my site history that I've visited (that's very annoying but minor), it also *smoked* entirely my *complete* list of bookmarks, they are gone. I'd like to get them back. Currently I'm not using Chrome and won't until this is settled, but Edge which I do not like. Some things I've read say it can't be done once Chrome does this autopurge, I don't know why it felt the need to destroy years of bookmarks, I'd like them back. I do not have chrome automatically logging in to a google account. Any advice welcome. Thanks. Dave.

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Re: Accessing Windows PE environment
by Andrew Hodgson 06 Nov '22

06 Nov '22

Hi. The problem I have isn't so much getting NVDA started but getting any usable audio. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Isaac Brofman <bigikemusic(a)gmail.com> Sent: 03 November 2022 15:50 To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org>; Andrew Hodgson <andrew(a)hodgson.io> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Accessing Windows PE environment Hi, you might try shift f 10 when the image has booted, then navigate with the command prompt to get to the directory and start nvda. With sighted help the first time you could also envoke notepad and use it like your opening a file and see what drives windows has made to find the nvda directory. On 11/3/2022 9:42 AM, Andrew Hodgson wrote: > Hi. > > I've never managed to get this working on anything other than the Windows setup image. This includes the WinRE recovery environment you can boot into from your machine. > > Let us know if you get it working. > Andrew. > > -----Original Message----- > From: jason.fayre(a)cibc.com <jason.fayre(a)cibc.com> > Sent: 03 November 2022 14:25 > To: blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Accessing Windows PE environment > > 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! > _______________________________________________ > Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- > blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > To unsubscribe send an email to > blind-sysadmins-leave(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org > _______________________________________________ > 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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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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