Hi Chris, IT ssecurity is an area I'm highly interested in as well and undertook a M.Sc in Forensic Computing a few years ago. Unfortunately from my experience it is one of those areas that you're extremely limited in as a blind/VI computer user. There is so far you can get with CLI tools but to do any advanced pen testing you primarily need to use tools like burp which automate a lot of the hard work and many of these tools are just completely inaccessible with a screenreader. Unless you're a good programmer you can also just write your own scripts to perform similar functionality. I admit that it's been a while since I was seriously involved in this area so things might have changed... I'm open to contradiction! Chris, if you would like to contact me off-list I can share some resources I found useful during my post graduate course that might help you along! cheers, Donnacha. On 4/3/17, Chris Turner via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
HI all.
I've been reading a couple of books on pentesting, IT security in generl, have a virtual test environment, using Kali linux.
From an accessability PoV, asking for any tips / experiences / pitfalls with using some of the main tools mentioned in the reading material I've got. I'm a screen reader user and typically SSH into Kali from the Windows host. (espeakup is broken at the moment.)
I know Berp Suite isn't accessible.
How do you find Nessus? I've got it installed and tried a basic scan. I can't make much sense of the table of results or see how to get details. Maybe I'm misunderstanding it or missing a button with JAWS. I'm accessing it via Firefox.
I'm fine at picking my way through learning the command line tools. Using metasploit framework, so far. I got into this as interested in networking and security. I suspect it might be one of those things I can only get so far with then be at a significant disadvantage due to accessability and speed. Well and my brain maybe too... :D
Anyway thoughts welcome.
Cheers.
Chris Turner
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