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SoftPhone Wave
by Ibraam Wahib 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

hello dears sorry if this off topic please, any experience about Accessibility of Wave SoftPhone from Grandstreem? as an aigent & supervisor in call center. appreciate your support / advice if another group specialized in such topics. feel free to eMail me directly to not desturbe members. thanks very much

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Replacing Chocolatey with Winget
by Andrew Hodgson 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Hi. Seriously looking at replacing my scripts to use Winget now instead of Chocolatey. I notice there is even a package for JFW 2023 as well as NVDA in Winget. Has anyone actually had experience with using these packages? May play over the weekend. Thanks. Andrew.

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UK suppliers of Windows IoT?
by Mobeen Iqbal 12 Feb '23

12 Feb '23

Hello Everyone. Does anyone know of any UK based suppliers of Windows 10 IoT enterprise? I've found plenty of people in the US supplying it, but no one really seems to be supplying anything other than server licenses in the UK. Very best wishes, Mo.

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Re: PRTG Network Monitor
by Ryan Shugart 11 Feb '23

11 Feb '23

Hi Billy: This is awesome, its always great when a company in the IT/admin space is deticating to accessibility. Could you by chance give us a link to the product? Thanks. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Billy Irwin <billy.irwin(a)outlook.com <mailto:billy.irwin@outlook.com>> Reply-To: Mailing list for blind system administrators <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>> Date: Friday, February 10, 2023 at 4:59 PM To: "blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>" <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org <mailto:blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] PRTG Network Monitor Hi All, It is great to be back on the list. I have some news for all of you looking for a NMS solution. PRTG by Paessler is getting a GUI makeover and will be WCAG compliant with their new interface. I've been testing it in my production environment with much success. The GUI isn't complete by no means, but it is a great step in the right direction. They have committed to making their solution complaint. The interface is still in alpha. You can download their demo and work with it and send them feedback if you are interested. I will also add that they added WCAG to their public roadmap as well.. Best, Billy L. Irwin Sr. Cyber Security / Network Engineer County Government _______________________________________________ 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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PRTG Network Monitor
by Billy Irwin 11 Feb '23

11 Feb '23

Hi All, It is great to be back on the list. I have some news for all of you looking for a NMS solution. PRTG by Paessler is getting a GUI makeover and will be WCAG compliant with their new interface. I've been testing it in my production environment with much success. The GUI isn't complete by no means, but it is a great step in the right direction. They have committed to making their solution complaint. The interface is still in alpha. You can download their demo and work with it and send them feedback if you are interested. I will also add that they added WCAG to their public roadmap as well.. Best, Billy L. Irwin Sr. Cyber Security / Network Engineer County Government

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Accessing Microsoft 365 mail from Linux
by Jason White 02 Feb '23

02 Feb '23

What is currently my best and most screen reader accessible option for working with Microsoft 365-hosted mail (Exchange Online) when running Linux? I’ve enabled IMAP and SMTP access in the Exchange Online configuration. It’s my Microsoft 365 subscription, which I recently upgraded to include e-mail, Microsoft Teams, etc., and intended for professional/career-related use. However, and for good reasons, Microsoft now requires the use of OAuth 2.0 authorization for both IMAP and SMTP connections. My options so far appear to be as follows. Mozilla Thunderbird, which I’m already using with my Linux-hosted IMAP account. Unfortunately, authentication in Microsoft 365 is currently an open bug which is being actively worked on by Mozilla, introduced in the most recent Thunderbird release. I expect this is my best option, and I can afford to wait a while for them to resolve the bug. Evolution: not very accessible with a screen reader, as I recall. DavMail: This is another possibility. It essentially accesses Microsoft servers and makes mail, contacts and calendar available locally via their respective protocols (IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV/CardDAV). I don’t know how reliably it works with Microsoft’s current authentication and authorization scheme, though. The outlook.office365.com <http://outlook.office365.com/> Web interface: probably workable, but not ideal - I would prefer to have both of my mail accounts in the same client. Comments welcome.

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Microsoft certification exam accommodations survey
by Ryan Shugart 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

Hi all: Earlier I had posted to this group about a survey Microsoft was running regarding accommodation's for certification exams. This survey had been scheduled to end on 12/16, however the date has been extended until 12/31. If anyone is interested, you can take the survey here<https://forms.office.com/r/XY7S7JgKL6>. My apologies for the late notice of the extension, I have been on vacation for the past few weeks. If there are any accessibility issues taking the survey, please reach out to the Enterprise Disability Answer Desk<mailto:edad@microsoft.com> for assistance. Thanks a lot. Ryan Ryan Shugart Senior Program Manager, Cloud+AI Accessibility Microsoft Corporation 425-705-1262

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Certification Exam
by gbobo＠woh.rr.com 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

Hello All, I passed my Security+ exam yesterday. The exam was not accessible, so I had to use a reader/recorder. I got lucky and the reader was really good. Overall, my experience with the testing center was very good. I had the exam room to myself. The actual test was very shitty. It began with 4 performance based questions I found very frustrating, some of the questions were so long that I had to have the questions read over and over. The reader even thought the questions were very long and unfair in some cases because I had to memorize the scenario while trying to pick the answer. At one point the question was so long, the reader and I agreed that it gave us headaches. My experience with the reader was good and I lucked out with a good one. I hope accessibility for tests will get better because there are more coming up in my future. Greg B.

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Test mail from new instance
by Andrew Hodgson 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Hi. Testing mail from new larger VPS as I want to run a Mastodan instance from the same machine. A few things may be off as the Mailman now uses a different backend so I can share stuff with the Mastadon instance. Thanks. Andrew.

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study around Microsoft exam acomidations
by Ryan Shugart 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

Hi: I wanted to mention this to the list as there has been some interest. I am personally not connected with the team running this study but it is being done in partnership with a team at Microsoft. If you have taken a Microsoft exam with or without accommodations in the past 3 years, you may be interested in participating in this study<https://accessibilityuserresearchcollective.org/study-128a-microsoft-accomm…> regarding the accommodations process around Microsoft certification and licensure exams. Thanks. Ryan Ryan Shugart Senior Program Manager, Cloud+AI Accessibility Microsoft Corporation 425-705-1262

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