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Re: Anyone taken an online exam with Pearson Vue?
by Andrew Hodgson 27 May '25

27 May '25

Hi. I do have a letter from my ophthalmologist which I use. Its worth checking the Cisco exams as they may have changed. I'm not entirely sure though how they would describe all the network diagrams that were on the CCNA exam last time I tried it. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: ultimatethesecond(a)googlemail.com <ultimatethesecond(a)googlemail.com> Sent: 27 May 2025 12:15 To: Andrew Hodgson <andrew(a)hodgson.io> Subject: RE: [Blind-sysadmins] Anyone taken an online exam with Pearson Vue? Hi. Thanks Andrew. Good luck chasing them too. I've started the request process online and Seems I'll need to get a letter from my doctor first. The form requests for documentary evidence of diagnosis and impact. Don't think a copy of my CVI is going to cut it. I'll update the list on how it goes, if it's useful to anyone else. Good to know about Microsoft and Cisco though, disappointing on the latter. I was thinking to try Cisco certification again now you can take exams online but if they don't allow jaws... Regards Chris. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hodgson <andrew(a)hodgson.io> Sent: 27 May 2025 12:00 To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Chris T <ultimatethesecond(a)googlemail.com> Subject: RE: [Blind-sysadmins] Anyone taken an online exam with Pearson Vue? Hi. Its getting through and I think I've answered this question on the list before. The accommodations for the exam depend on the partner. So if you're taking the Microsoft exams they will work with Jaws but Cisco don't support it and not sure about Comptia. You have to go through an approval process with Pearson and this seems to be very hit and miss at the moment. For example I'm trying to renew my accommodations but they keep ignoring me and have told me it will take longer to come back due to a ransomware attack at their end. I need to get back onto them about this. My recommendation would be to try and talk to someone at Comptia or see what is available on their website as for example on the Microsoft website they state that Jaws is supported and give a practice test. In the case of the Microsoft exams images are described. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Turner via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: 27 May 2025 11:45 To: blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: ultimatethesecond(a)googlemail.com Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Anyone taken an online exam with Pearson Vue? HI all. Seeing if this gets through. Has anyone taken an exam online with Pearson Vue? I gather they need to have a camera on, so they can see the room. This shouldn't be a problem. How did accommodations work out? If this is possible at all, that is. I would hope we can take exams online, get extra time and use our screenreaders. I'm looking to take the Comptia Security Plus exam. If anyone else has done, is there much visual content? The practise questions I'm using have the odd diagram but everything is multiple choice. Thanks. Chris. _______________________________________________ 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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azure training through Global Knowledge
by Fayre, Jason 13 May '25

13 May '25

Hello, Through my workplace, I am planning to take the Azure Fundamentals course. The provider we use for virtual and in-person training is Global Knowledge. For this course, they are using a web portal to access a virtual machine for doing a few of the course labs. The VM comes up inside the web page. Obviously this is not accessible. Has anyone experienced any courses like this, and how did you get around it? For this particular course, I don't think the labs are critical, but I expect they will become more so as I take further courses. Jason Fayre Assistive Technology Specialist | Enterprise Endpoint Compute | Employee Technology Services | CIBC 81 Bay Street, 14th Floor Toronto ON, Canada, M5J 0E7 | Tel: (416) 412-2678 | jason.fayre(a)cibc.com<mailto:jason.fayre@cibc.com>

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Keyboard shortcuts in nested RDP sessions
by Lukasz Golonka 01 May '25

01 May '25

Dear all, At work I'll soon have to work in a nested RDP session, meaning that I'll connect to a first RDP server from my laptop and then connect from there via RDP to a second PC, to which the development board I need to access is connected. I have simulated such setup and my main accessibility related worry turned out to be irrelevant, as NVDA's RDAccess works flawlessly in that configuration, with both speech and Braille. I am, however, unable to leave the second session, without leaving the entire RDP. The CTRL++ALT+pause and CTRL+ALT+HOME move me to my main desktop / to the connection bar of the first connection, even when performed in the second session. The tips from the Internet about using CTRL+SHIFG+ALT+HOME don't work;. I have also found some articles about scripting these shortcuts with AutoHotKey, however it seems folks have very limited luck with this approach. How are you handling this situation? Is there a method for switching away from the nested session I overlooked? -- Many thanks Lukasz

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Trying to get a Raspberry Pi 4 to get DHCP from my router
by Steve Nutt 01 May '25

01 May '25

Hi all, I just got a new Pi 4, in order to use it as a Fing agent, http://www.fing.com for network monitoring. We installed Bookworm to it, and even tried earlier versions like BullsEye, but it will not get DHCP from my router. Once we have installed it, we can see it using PuTTY and I can log into it. However, although it gets as far as the LAN, it doesn't get out to WAN. It goes for the local IP of 127.0.0.1. So my friend took it to his house, and from his router, provided by Plusnet, it gets DHCP, and on my Draytek router, it doesn't. The main difference between the two is that the gateway on the Plusnet router is 192.168.1.254, and the gateway IP on the Draytek is 192.168.1.1. Could anyone please tell me the easiest way to change the gateway, netmask and DNS servers it looks for? In this way, we may be able to get DHCP from the router. It appears that Bookworm doesn't use DHCPCD any more, so I have been trying without success using NMCLI commands. If anyone can help with this, I would be extremely grateful. Many thanks. All the best Steve -- To subscribe to our News and Special Offers list, go to <https://www.comproom.co.uk/subscribe> https://www.comproom.co.uk/subscribe Computer Room Services 77 Exeter Close Stevenage Hertfordshire SG1 4PW T: +44(0)1438-742286 M: +44(0)7956-334938 F: +44(0)1438-759589 E: <mailto:steve@comproom.co.uk> steve(a)comproom.co.uk W: <https://www.comproom.co.uk> https://www.comproom.co.uk

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accessibility of Peoplecert ITIL exam
by Fayre, Jason 23 Apr '25

23 Apr '25

Hi all, I'm currently in a course for ITIL 4 fundamentals. The exam is online. Does anyone know if this exam system is accessible? Please note: for accessibility reasons, please do not send me screenshots. Jason Fayre Assistive Technology Specialist | Enterprise Endpoint Compute | Employee Technology Services | CIBC 81 Bay Street, 14th Floor Toronto ON, Canada, M5J 0E7 | Tel: (416) 412-2678 | jason.fayre(a)cibc.com<mailto:jason.fayre@cibc.com>

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Hosted AI server
by Timothy Spaulding 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Hello All, Can anyone recommend a hosted solution VPS (I would assume) where I can install an OpenSource AI LLM such as Ollama? I don't have anything in my home lab with a GPU to speak of; and I want to play for a bit before I throw a crap load of money at it. Regards, Tim

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Just a heads up, networking issues on VMware Workstation, 17.6.*
by ultimatethesecond＠googlemail.com 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

HI all. If anyone else uses VMware Workstation 17.6 on Win 11, there seems to be a problem with the latest point release. I was prompted to update yesterday 17.03/25 I can't recall the exact version it pushed. Something like 17.6.3. Should have taken a note. However, following installing, it broke guest connections via bridged adapter to my real network. A major pain as I use SSH from my Win11 host as some of these VMs are headless or otherwise inaccessible. A bit of Googling seems others have had this problem but with earlier builds. I uninstalled and reinstalled 17.6 and disabled automatic updates. Things seem to be working again. Workstation itself doesn't let you downgrade, so you'll have to uninstall and reinstall. Some sighted folk have got this working with nat and host only but as I say, not a solution I can use due to inaccessibility. Cheers Chris.

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test
by ultimatethesecond＠googlemail.com 12 Mar '25

12 Mar '25

Are my messages getting through? CHris

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Anyone taken Comptia Security+ online from home?
by ultimatethesecond＠googlemail.com 28 Feb '25

28 Feb '25

Hi all. Is this list still going? Not seen post for months. Anyway as per subject line. Any screen reader users here taken the Security + or for that matter any other exam with Pearson Vue from home? Just wondering how well their system works, if indeed it does. Thanks. Chris.

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Pearson vue online exams? Pearso
by Chris T 13 Feb '25

13 Feb '25

> hi all. Has anyone taken online exams with accommodations, as a screen reader user, with Pearson Vue? I’m just wondering about your experience. This was not an option last time I tried many years ago. I’m not working at the moment and trying to retrain, looking at taking theComptia Security+ If the online exam process works okay this would give me a lot of motivation to get into this more. Cheers. Chris Turner

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