Hi Sean: Thanks a lot for the congradulations. I don't think Backup Exec has any kind of API, a com object is possible I've not looked for that yet. What it does have though that might be just as good is a commandline tool called bemcmd.exe. I've looked at the help for this tool, and while it looks like its kind of bulky, meaning I wouldn't want to use it for day to day administration and I don't think that's how Symantec designed it to be used, if I need screen reader scripts written this might be the way to go, instead of working with the GUI itself, having a custom GUI that calls bemcmd.exe. I should know a little more today as I get to go through this for the first time and explore. Thanks again Ryan -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Sean Murphy Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 5:12 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] let's talk Backup Exec Ryan, Good work in getting the promotion. does the backup tool have any COM/DOM where you can control the app via scripts? such as VBA or Powershell? Then you could create scripts to do the sceduling and even possibily improve accessibility via scripts with Jaws or Window-eyes. Sean _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins