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Big upgrade to the lists
by Andrew Hodgson 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

Hi all, Just to let you know there has been a major Mailman upgrade on the lists.hodgsonfamily.org lists and this means that the interface is quite different on the web side now. Hopefully everything is self explanatory but let me know if you have any issues. Likewise there may be some issues we need to work through as the system beds in. Thanks, Andrew.

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Quick assist with screen reader?
by Ryan Mann 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Windows 10 has a built-in feature to give remote assistance called Quick Assist. Has anybody used this with NVDA or JAWS? I am able to connect to the other person’s computer, but I can’t seem to actually control it. When I do something such as hitting the Windows key, the start menu is opened on my computer, not there’s. If they do something, neither JAWS or NVDA reads the output. I thought somebody told me this was accessible, but maybe not? Thanks. Ryan Mann Computer Instructor/IT Specialist Center For The Visually Impaired DaytonaBeach, FL 32114 Phone: 386-253-8879 EXT 111

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Jaws and Skype for Business
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi All, The company I work for Is soon switching to Skype for Business as the internal communication tool from Cisco Jabber. As you may know, Skype for business is a rebranding of the older Lync software. Does anyone have experience of its accessibility and any additional steps one must take to enhance the usability of this? I know that there are some scripts around, but wanted to get peoples' thoughts. Thank you Chamandeep Singh Grover

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Jaws and Skype for Business
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi All, The company I work for Is soon switching to Skype for Business as the internal communication tool from Cisco Jabber. As you may know, Skype for business is a rebranding of the older Lync software. Does anyone have experience of its accessibility and any additional steps one must take to enhance the usability of this? I know that there are some scripts around, but wanted to get peoples' thoughts. Thank you Chamandeep Singh Grover

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Service now - is it as usable as it could be with a screen reader
by Andrew Hodgson 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi, I have just started using Service Now as part of my new job. i am mainly raising change control items, and adding to tickets. I am finding it a slog to use with JFW and Chrome/Firefox. It is very unclear when fields are read only, there seems to be non-standard combo boxes on the fields, and I am often shunted around on the page for no reason. Is anyone else having similar experiences? i don't know to what extent the system is customisable by the company, even though it is hosted by Service Now. Thanks. Andrew.

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Service now - is it as usable as it could be with a screen reader
by Andrew Hodgson 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi, I have just started using Service Now as part of my new job. i am mainly raising change control items, and adding to tickets. I am finding it a slog to use with JFW and Chrome/Firefox. It is very unclear when fields are read only, there seems to be non-standard combo boxes on the fields, and I am often shunted around on the page for no reason. Is anyone else having similar experiences? i don't know to what extent the system is customisable by the company, even though it is hosted by Service Now. Thanks. Andrew.

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hexadecimal in braille?
by Samuel Barnes 31 May '18

31 May '18

How is hex indicated in braille? Constantly having to escape strings of digits and letters with the number and letter signs sounds super bulky. I know 8 dot braille uses dropped numbers, but that would make letters and digits harder to discern.

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kali accessible?
by David Mehler 30 May '18

30 May '18

Hello, Does anyone have Kali linux post-install speech accessible? I can get it installed in to a vm with speech but then on reboot I loose speech, I also do not have network ssh ability. Thanks. Dave.

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office products for the pc
by Isaac 28 May '18

28 May '18

Hi, is there a way to get of the rribben or an easy way to learn it, because it seems to be more bulky then old menus? THanks: Isaac

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Accessible and effective hardware diagnostic tools? (Linux/Windows)
by Jason White 28 May '18

28 May '18

I have a relatively new laptop that is causing trouble. Symptoms include Windows kernel crashes with various bug check codes reported in the logs, seemingly random program crashes, and Microsoft Outlook data file corruption (even after deleting the .ost files and re-creating them). This machine has been returned to the manufacturer under warranty, but they failed to find any hardware problem, choosing to re-install Windows as a remedy, which didn’t last. (i.e., data corruption and program crashes recurred). A local hardware repair vendor also failed to find any issue. To be fair, the BIOS-level tests didn’t reveal any hardware problems when my colleagues at work ran them. However, Microsoft Memory Diagnostics repeatedly report bad pages. After running the Memory Diagnostic again last week, the system appears to have crashed, then rebooted, reporting drive errors that it “fixed” by returning to a restore point when the repair operation failed. I ran Memory Diagnostics again, this time returning the report below in the Windows logs. I plan to install Linux on this machine, possibly in a dual-boot configuration, but I want to identify and detect any hardware issue first. Are there additional tools, preferably screen reader accessible, that I could run either under Linux (e.g., a GRML or Arch installation image written to a USB device) or Microsoft Windows that would help to identify the underlying problem – whether it’s a RAM module, the system board, the SSD, etc.? Any other advice would be appreciated, as I’m not receiving quality diagnosis from the vendor or a third party company that I’ve tried. Here’s the Memory Diagnostics report: + System - Provider [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-MemoryDiagnostics-Results [ Guid] {5F92BC59-248F-4111-86A9-E393E12C6139} EventID 1102 Version 0 Level 2 Task 0 Opcode 0 Keywords 0x8000000000000000 - TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2018-05-26T03:58:10.809049100Z EventRecordID 2272 Correlation - Execution [ ProcessID] 7656 [ ThreadID] 1100 Channel System Computer jpw.jasonjgw.net - Security [ UserID] S-1-5-18 - UserData - Results LaunchType Manual CompletionType Fail MemorySize 32574 TestType 10 TestDuration 3577 TestCount 12 NumPagesTested 8289129 NumPagesUnTested 1535 NumBadPages 2 T1NumBadPages 0 T2NumBadPages 0 T3NumBadPages 0 T4NumBadPages 0 T5NumBadPages 0 T6NumBadPages 0 T7NumBadPages 0 T8NumBadPages 0 T9NumBadPages 2 T10NumBadPages 0 T11NumBadPages 0 T12NumBadPages 0 T13NumBadPages 0 T14NumBadPages 0 T15NumBadPages 0 T16NumBadPages 0

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