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remote support
by Ibraam Wahib 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

hello dears please, how I could access sighted person pc for remote support? he doesn't have screen-reader, also worried that might not able to install nvda, could run it portable? is any portable copy of nvda for remote support which less size and configured only for this purpose? he has any-disk installed, and may be team viewer many thanks

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the remote desktop app for android
by mattias jonsson 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

i playing around with this app and yes you can connect to a windows server and do things if you have nvda started. but you cant contorl nvda.. anyone have the same issue?

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Power Automate and Jaws
by Caroline Ford 01 Oct '20

01 Oct '20

Hi, Has anyone had experience using Power Automate with Jaws? I have found a few websites where accessibility features are discussed but would be interested to know if anyone has actually used it and with what level of success. Thanks, Caroline. [cid:SCemailfooterPROOF1-01_d28887fd-ca65-4848-9cba-0c2b078d7b25.png]<https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus> This e-mail expresses the opinion of the author and is not necessarily the view of the Council. Please be aware that anything included in an e-mail may have to be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act and cannot be regarded as confidential. This communication is intended for the addressee(s) only. Please notify the sender if received in error. All Email is monitored and recorded. Please think before you print- North Lincolnshire Council greening the workplace.

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Trend Micro Apex One inaccessible after the last update?
by Eigeldinger Simon 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

Hi all, Is anyone over here also using Trend Micro Apex One? Yesterday we updated Apex One to its latest version. It seems they made the interface inaccessible. They still use the old Internet Explorer component to display most parts of their GUI but it seems its not focusable anymore using NVDA 2020.2. Object navigation just shows empty windows. Greetings, Simon Mit freundlichen Grüßen Simon Eigeldinger Informatik Nebengebäude 1, OG1 [Hohenems_logo]Stadt Hohenems Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Straße 4 6845 Hohenems T: +43 5576 7101-1143 | E: simon.eigeldinger(a)hohenems.at | www.hohenems.at<http://www.hohenems.at> Diese Nachricht und allfällige angehängte Dokumente sind vertraulich und nur für den/die Adressaten bestimmt.

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Call for testing: vast performance and stability improvements in command consoles for NVDA users
by codeofdusk＠gmail.com 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

Hi blind-sysadmins, Microsoft has been doing a lot of really great work on UI Automation (UIA) in Windows Console (command prompt, PowerShell, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux). UIA vastly improves performance and stability in console, but some issues prevented it from becoming default in NVDA 2019.3. Many of the bugs in UIA have been fixed, and I'm hoping it'll be good enough to be default for the Windows 10 21H1 update to be released in the first half of 2021! However, it's important that all serious bugs are resolved before UIA becomes the default. The deadline for fixes to make it into the next Windows update is 30 October 2020. I'd really appreciate it if people tested this build <https://codeofdusk.com/conhost20200928.zip> (extract the zip and run OpenConsole.exe) of the Windows Console with "use UI Automation to access Windows Console" enabled in NVDA's advanced settings and reported any issues to me. Alternatively, you can file issues on the microsoft/terminal GitHub repo (which also is used for Windows Console). If you file issues with Microsoft, please provide a test case for them to run in the NVDA Python console (see this issue <https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/7742> as an example) and CC @carlos-zamora. If you need help generating a test case, please let me know. To aid in testing, you can replace the Windows default console with OpenConsole. Change the owner of %systemroot%\system32\conhost.exe to yourself (in security properties), then grant you or the administrators group full control of the file. Rename conhost.exe to conhost.exe.orig, paste in OpenConsole.exe into the folder, and rename it to conhost.exe. If you've done it correctly, running nav.is21H1Plus in the Python console (NVDA+control+z) started from cmd should return True! To switch back to your original console, just rename conhost.exe to something else, and rename conhost.exe.orig back to conhost.exe. Thanks, Bill

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network monitoring software
by Mike Fulton 19 Sep '20

19 Sep '20

Hi all, Are there any accessible network monitoring programs that work with jaws? Thanks, Mike

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Virtualbox tip
by John G Heim 18 Sep '20

18 Sep '20

I just discovered that gocr works a lot better than tesseract at recognizing text in a Virtualbox screen capture. If you're running a Virtualbox virtual machine, there's a command to take a screen cap. That generates a png file. You can run gocr on that to see what the screen on the virtual machine says. Something like this in linux: vboxmanage controlvm $VMNAME screenshotpng /tmp/screencap.png gocr /tmp/screencap.png -- John G. Heim; jheim(a)math.wisc.edu; 608-263-4189

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Endpoint configuration manager
by Kieran Little 18 Sep '20

18 Sep '20

Hi all, I've recently been given access to our configuration manager console, in preparation for some training on managing and updating apps e.g. adobe reader etc. Does anyone have any tips on using it successfully with a screenreader? I use JFW 2020 primarily, however I also have NVDA installed. My main issue seems to be reliably accessing the ribbon, and that I can't seem to read the list of device collections a device is a part of. Cheers, Kieran. Kieran Little IT Apprentice (Solution Design Assurance) Information Services Northumberland County Council County Hall Morpeth NE61 2EF Service desk: 01670 627004 Direct: 01670 623699 Mobile: 07966325130 Email: kieran.little(a)northumberland.gov.uk<mailto:kieran.little@northumberland.gov.uk> Website: www.northumberland.gov.uk<http://www.northumberland.gov.uk> Save Time Do It Online! We have made a few key improvements to our site to make our services easy to access. Now you can do everything from paying your council tax, to reporting a faulty street light online. Go to: www.northumberland.gov.uk and click 'pay, apply or report' to access the relevant forms. This email is intended solely for the individual or individuals to whom it is addressed, and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this email is prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the email from any computer. All email communication may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with internal policy and relevant legislation. [Northumberland County Council Stay Home]

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remote support
by Mike Fulton 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

Hi all, Part of my job requires me to remotely access machines to provide support. The only solution I'm finding is to install the jaws demo on all of the computers on the network, and purchase the remote access addon for my license. Is that the best option? If so is there a good way to deploy jaws to all of the machines? Ideally we would not even want the users to know that jaws is installed so they do not accidentally activate it. Thank you, Mike

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VMware: Which virtual machine is on which host?
by John G Heim 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

I have been a backup VMWare admin for a few years. Actually, I'm third in line so maybe I'm the backup of a backup. Anyway, I've been tasked with shutting down our VMWare cluster. We're moving some virtual machines to a centralized VMWare cluster on campus. But others we are just going to recreate on the hosts we are currently using for our VMWare cluster. We have 4 hosts in our cluster. I need to shift some VMs around so I can take a host out of the cluster. Then I am going to install Linux on the host and recreate the virtual machine on the new Linux host. The goal would be to get to just one host with one virtual machine, the vcenter server. At that point we could just turn it off. I know how to migrate a VM to another host but what I don't know is how to figure out where to move it. Is there a way to show which VMs are running on which host in the VSphere client? Can I get a report of how burdened a host is? I keep googling this stuff and I get answers way beyond this simple stuff I want to do. - John G. Heim; jheim(a)math.wisc.edu; 608-263-4189

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