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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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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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