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Recommendations for on-line poll
by John G. Heim 21 Aug '24

21 Aug '24

I need to set up an on-line poll for the local NFB chapter. Do any of you have recommendations for the best, most accessible, place for me to configure the poll? You know how it is, it is difficult enough to get people to respond to a poll, even harder if they encounter any accessibility problems. PS: The poll is to allow people to rank their choice for recreational activities to do in the next year. Horseback riding, rock climbing, bowling, etc.

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self-hosting a vaultwarden instance?
by David Mehler 19 Aug '24

19 Aug '24

Hello, Has anyone self-hosted a vaultwarden instance so they can utilize there own private password manager perhaps for example-sake on a Raspberry Pi? If so, how did you get it set up? I've read many howtos on it some say one thing others another. What were your impressions of the setup process and how do you like self-hosting a password manager? Thanks. Dave. -- Sent with Thunderbird

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Hyper-V setup and accessibility?
by David Mehler 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

Hello, Is anyone using Hyper-V and if so how easy was it to get going from an accessibility perspective? I'm apparently needing a new virtualization platform as apparently vmware went up in price and the player variant is no longer freely available. Suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave. -- Sent with Thunderbird

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Changing Mail Routing
by Kelly Ford 23 Jul '24

23 Jul '24

Hello, Does anyone have thoughts on what I can try to diagnose a problem I’m having changing the destination for one of my email accounts. I currently have the mx record pointing to a Microsoft server because kelly(a)theideaplace.net<mailto:kelly@theideaplace.net> is the account I use with a Microsoft business subscription. I want to return the mail to the destination where the rest of that domain is hosted on Bluehost. I’ve lowed the priority of the MX record for Microsoft to 10 and added a new MX record at priority 0 pointing to mail.theideaplace.net<http://mail.theideaplace.net>. With these changes in place, email quits going to Microsoft but it is not showing up on the servers for Bluehost and is not being returned as a problematic address. I have no idea where the mail is actually going. If I delete the priority 0 MX record for mail.theideaplace.net<http://mail.theideaplace.net>, then my mail shows back up on the Microsoft Exchange server where the lower priority MX record points. Kelly

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Re: Tucows
by Ryan Shugart 12 Jul '24

12 Jul '24

Thanks Billy, I didn't know Tucows had other domain resellers, I thought Hover was the only one. I'll start investigating this, my domains are set up for the year so I have time to figure out next steps. Thanks again. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Billy Irwin via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>> Reply-To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>> Date: Thursday, July 11, 2024 at 8:02 PM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>> Cc: Billy Irwin <billy.irwin(a)outlook.com <mailto:billy.irwin@outlook.com>> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Tucows Hi, I honestly would move to one of their other resellers. I have no JAWS issues with the stuff I have through them. As much as they have gobbled up, I wonder if they intend on operating them as separate entities or truly merging them. Best, Billy -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Shugart via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2024 8:32 PM To: Andrew Hodgson via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>> Cc: Ryan Shugart <rshugart(a)ryanshugart.com <mailto:rshugart@ryanshugart.com>> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Tucows Hi all: Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I saw a few of you had contacts at Tucows. I was wondering if you by chance had been in touch with their accessibility team or had contacts on their accessibility team? Both of my personal domains are registered through Hover, which is owned by Tucows, and I cringe every year at renewal time because the control panel to manage a domain has so many basic accessibility errors its not even funny. I’ve thought several times about transferring my domains to someone else, the only reason I don’t is I only have to interact with Hover once a year to renew my domains, all my DNS records are stored on Microsoft servers, and managing DNS records in Office 365 is not a great user experience but at least its an accessible one. I’ve contacted Hover support over this and they can’t reregister me over the phone “to protect my security” but they did give me free registration for a year. I’m just wondering if those of you with Tucows contacts have a way to escalate this to the accessibility people? Thanks a lot. Ryan _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>

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Tucows
by Ryan Shugart 12 Jul '24

12 Jul '24

Hi all: Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I saw a few of you had contacts at Tucows. I was wondering if you by chance had been in touch with their accessibility team or had contacts on their accessibility team? Both of my personal domains are registered through Hover, which is owned by Tucows, and I cringe every year at renewal time because the control panel to manage a domain has so many basic accessibility errors its not even funny. I’ve thought several times about transferring my domains to someone else, the only reason I don’t is I only have to interact with Hover once a year to renew my domains, all my DNS records are stored on Microsoft servers, and managing DNS records in Office 365 is not a great user experience but at least its an accessible one. I’ve contacted Hover support over this and they can’t reregister me over the phone “to protect my security” but they did give me free registration for a year. I’m just wondering if those of you with Tucows contacts have a way to escalate this to the accessibility people? Thanks a lot. Ryan

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Testing
by Andrew Hodgson 07 Jul '24

07 Jul '24

Hi. Test. Andrew.

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Cloudflare DNS Provider and CAA records?
by David Mehler 02 Jul '24

02 Jul '24

Hello, If anyone is using cloudflare as there DNS provider and uses a CAA record please contact me? I atempted to do one on my other domain intending for only letsencrypt to be able to issue certificates for my domain, a dig check reveals many other providers that I didn't authorize. Obviously I did something wrong. Thanks. Dave. -- Sent from Mozilla Thunderbird 91.13.1

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mailing lists to subscribe to as a sysadmin
by Eigeldinger Simon 21 May '24

21 May '24

Hi all, Any mailing lists you are recommending to join as a sysadmin? Basically i am subscribed to the nvda lists, techtalk, teams-access, m365-accessibility, winaccess and some other smaller lists. And i also have some newsletters from the german cert. Greetings, Simon

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Accessing remote system in Amazon WorkSpaces with a screen reader
by Lukasz Golonka 15 May '24

15 May '24

Dear all, My employer recently decided to move most of our software development activities to a remote systems accessed via Amazon WorkSpaces. By default it just connects to an Amazon Linux 2 running Mate as an GUI, which obviously will not work with a screen reader. My initial idea was to access this remote system via SSH, which is a supported scenario for accessing WorkSpaces, and while it will be possible to write and compile code that way, there are some activities that require a GUI, accessing our GitLab instances via a web browser being a prime example. Note that these web applications are not and will not be accessible from our main machines i.e. they are reachable only from the systems running inside the WorkSpace. According to JAWS's documentation its remote access solution has support for accessing remote Windows inside WorkSpaces, so I gave this a try. Sadly this either does not work, or I'm missing something very obvious. AWS supports two protocols when creating a remote machine: WSP and PCoIP. When running JAWs on a remote machine using the former it does not detect that it is running in a remote access scenario and relies on transferring audio to the client. For the latter while JAWS claims to be running in the remote mode the authorization is not taken from the client JAWS's speech is also transferred as an audio and not using a remote channel. Has anyone tried and successfully used JAWS's remote support in Amazon WorkSpaces? JAWS's documentation for remote access is sadly very basic in this area. Note that I am aware it should be possible to achieve the similar goal by using NVDA Remote, however that will require a remote server which is visible both from my work machine and from the system running inside the WorkSpace, which is going to be pretty difficult, as main reason for deploying WorkSpaces in the first place was separation of these two environments. Obviously any alternative proposals for accessing remote Windows in WorkSpaces are very welcome. Thanks for your help! -- Regards Lukasz Golonka

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