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Navigation in the Azure UI has become very inefficient.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 14 May '24

14 May '24

Hello, Perhaps someone could direct me in the right direction. The people I previously raised this kind of problem with are no longer with Microsoft. In the update released just over a week ago, the navigation in the Azure portal has become painfully inefficient. Previously to navigate the list of tabs / pages for a blade, I would do the following: 1. Press control end. Press shift r. Press E to get to the search box. Tab twice. Jaws would recognise that I was in a list of items similar to a treeview and would quite comfortably read the list as I arrowed through. Now: I go to the region using step one and two above. But the treeview is no longer recognised properly. I can read the first few links. When it gets to the sections such as config for example, I can't keep using arrow down to move through the list. The virtual PC cursor is re-enabled. The item is then no longer a link. Jaws just reads it as text. There is also a button after each item that says "Add to favourites". This means I need to listen to a lot more speech and I need to arrow through a lot more. Also, take the example where I want to find the add button in one of the blades. I would previously do the following: 1. Press control and end to get to the bottom of the page. 2. Press shift and r to move to the last region. 3. Press b three or four times to find the close button. 4. Then arrow down until I find the button that I want. I arrow down so that I don't miss any important messages at the top of the blade. Now, because of all these buttons to add to favourites it takes far too long to find this simple add button. By the way, I have disabled the collapsable menus that came out in this update because they made the situation even worse! Regards Darragh

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Nginx SSL question
by David Mehler 10 May '24

10 May '24

Hello, Do we have any advanced admins of the Nginx web server? I'm doing some configuration changes on a spare Nginx web server to evaluate them before putting them on the main server. I've got a question on the ssl_protocols configuration option. I'm wanting to support only TLSv1.3 and TLSv1.2 I've seen configurations written in both of the following ways: ssl_protocols TLSv1.3 TLSv1.2; or: ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3; Question, which is correct? Thanks. Dave. -- Sent from Mozilla Thunderbird 91.13.1

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using jump servers
by Fayre, Jason 10 May '24

10 May '24

Hello, At work, I have a situation where I need to access a server through a jump server. Essentially, you RDP into the jump server, then RDP from that server into your final destination. Does anyone know if JAWS will support an RDP connection like this? 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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Recommendations for PBX and softphones for windows?
by Eigeldinger Simon 08 May '24

08 May '24

Hi all, We are, as i said in another thread, changing our PBX from a hardware device to a cloud/software based solution. Which PBX are you recommending? I saw that some are using FreePBX and FusionPBX. And which softphones are you recommending for Windows? We are also getting ried of our old hardware phones as well. I want something i can use comfortably which isn't in the way all the time when the phone starts ringing. Are there also headset recommendations? Our city has around 100-200 phones. Greetings, Simon

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Re: Using a Cisco PBX
by Eigeldinger Simon 08 May '24

08 May '24

Hi Andrew, Thanks for the info. We are also in a second phone solution based on a cloud hosted Unify pbx which we are going to test right now. I will get an account for the phone part soon. Will report back how that one goes. Migration of that one would be easiest because there we could just move the whole data over. Greetings, Simon -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Andrew Hodgson <andrew(a)hodgson.io> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2024 13:08 An: Eigeldinger Simon <simon.eigeldinger(a)hohenems.at> Betreff: RE: Using a Cisco PBX Hi. Cisco used to lock you into a proprietary phone system called Skinny (SCCP) which didn't use SIP. This meant you had to use Cisco hardware and software. When I was using it we were using a Cisco router with a few ISDN-30 links, but we were desperately wanting to use SIP trunks. Even moving to the SIP trunks meant we had to buy a new set of routers and use those as gateways, we couldn't just set up the PBX appliances to gateway out to the SIP trunk. Would be really interested to see if you have looked at M365/Teams voice options. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Eigeldinger Simon <simon.eigeldinger(a)hohenems.at> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 10:26 AM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Andrew Hodgson <andrew(a)hodgson.io> Subject: AW: Using a Cisco PBX Hi Andrew, Well that sums up all what i have seen unfortunately. Thanks for the info. Seems that this pbx isn't all that loved *smile*. I also looked for more advanced settings like codecs. But this seems not available in this version over here. Greetings, Simon -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Andrew Hodgson via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Mai 2024 11:46 An: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Andrew Hodgson <andrew(a)hodgson.io> Betreff: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: Using a Cisco PBX Hi. I used the appliance version of this around 10 years ago which was version 8.6. Similar experience to you, the admin portal works ok but the desktop client is utter garbage. Not long after I left that job it got replaced by Skype for Business. It wasn't really a good fit for our business, we were only a relatively small outfit with around 300 phones and we never could afford the call centre addons for it. We kept it because there was a big investment in the phone hardware which we wanted to keep going until it wasn't supported. We were on version 4.x for ages, which ran on Windows 2003. We only upgraded to 8.6 as it was long out of support and we couldn't find someone to keep it going for us. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Eigeldinger Simon via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 8:26 AM To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Eigeldinger Simon <simon.eigeldinger(a)hohenems.at> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Using a Cisco PBX Hi all, Our city plans to get ried of the old Siemens/Unify PBX and switching over to a cloud based one. At the moment we are testing one from Cisco. I guess it is called Cisco Hosted Communication Service. The admin interface seems to be accessible enough to work with it. At least i looked at adding a device and working with extensions. I also looked at the Cisco Jabber UC client for Windows. Though this seems to be less accessible than the admin interface. It seems to have some accessibility features though it doesn't feel all that accessible using NVDA. Has someone some experience with this system and the client? Greetings, Simon _______________________________________________ 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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Using a Cisco PBX
by Eigeldinger Simon 08 May '24

08 May '24

Hi all, Our city plans to get ried of the old Siemens/Unify PBX and switching over to a cloud based one. At the moment we are testing one from Cisco. I guess it is called Cisco Hosted Communication Service. The admin interface seems to be accessible enough to work with it. At least i looked at adding a device and working with extensions. I also looked at the Cisco Jabber UC client for Windows. Though this seems to be less accessible than the admin interface. It seems to have some accessibility features though it doesn't feel all that accessible using NVDA. Has someone some experience with this system and the client? Greetings, Simon

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PBX on VPS?
by David Mehler 08 May '24

08 May '24

Hello, Do we have any users of a PBX running it on a VPS using it for home or small business services on a budget? Thanks. Dave. -- Sent from Mozilla Thunderbird 91.13.1

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Teamviewer?
by David Mehler 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

Hello, Does anyone have some notes on teamviewer and either Jaws or NVDA particularly where it comes to computers that are not in the same city? Thanks. Dave. -- Sent from Mozilla Thunderbird 91.13.1

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Teams woes on a new laptop install
by Andrew Hodgson 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

Hi. I'm a bit stuck at the moment with an issue on Teams. The company I work for has recently been taken over by a large corporate and this morning they wiped my laptop in the expectation I would reformat it with a clean install and provision it with their InTune. This seemed to go well at first, I installed Windows 11 23H2 from an ISO I downloaded, and the provisioning was successful. They are using the BeyondTrust Privilege Manager to stop people installing software and even though I have extra perms to install I am still prompted. Getting JFW 2024 installed was a bit of an issue. This also does some other lockdown of the system but unsure what and how it is locked down. The main issue though is that the InTune installed Teams on the device, and when I go into Teams I get absolutely no speech in any part of the app. I have tried several things to rectify this without issue. Its Teams Classic version 1.6.00.28554 that is installed. The version of Office they have installed is 16130.20810 which is from the 2302 semi-annual enterprise channel. Has anyone seen this issue where Teams is completely unusable with JFW? At this point I'm not sure if it's a problem with this BeyondTrust software or something in Teams, but its going to cause me a bit of a headache next week if I can't get this resolved quickly. Thanks. Andrew.

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Installing Win10 Pro 22h2 as a Vmware Workstation Guest
by David Mehler 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

Hello, The subject says what I'm trying to do, I've got Vmware Workstation Pro version 16 going on my system. To that I'd like to add Win10 pro x64. I've got the vm created, and have created a win10 22h2 iso, fed that to the vm, and started it. I'm trying to get speech going and it's not working, not doing anything. Any ideas welcome. Thanks. Dave.

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