Katherine, can you tell us more about this project? SCCM can be quite a beast to get going, accessibility issues aside even, and getting the entire System Center suite up and running is a pretty big project. Big companies bring in many consultants to get it set up just right and even then tweaking it to meet your exact needs is a big project. Where I work, SCCM is the main component of the suite we use, we use SCOM and Orchestrator to much smaller degrees. SCOM mainly for website performance monitoring and Orchestrator for basic automated tasks. From what I've seen, Orchestrator lacks even basic keyboard navigation, and SCOM has basic accessibility but there's a ton of unlabeled graffics. I haven't pushed accessibility issues with those products yet simply because SCCM is what my job most depends on. Ryan ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Katherine Moss [Katherine.Moss@gordon.edu] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 7:52 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] the future of System Center Configuration Manager I read through that and rather like the prospect. (for Window-Eyes scripting won't be a problem for me ... after all, that's part of the "Stormlight" project ideally), so keep an eventual eye on the Open Source community. (I'm going to be ideally using SCCM for a project that I'm working on with friends of mine.) Well, the entire suite will be configured if we can get it going ... -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Shugart Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 8:19 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] the future of System Center Configuration Manager This blog post has been making the rounds on the SCCM lists and thought I’d share for the other blind people who use SCCM: http://blogs.technet.com/b/configmgrteam/archive/2015/10/27/system-center-co... This actually makes me kind of nervous, Microsoft’s accessibility history with this product hasn’t exactly been stellar. We use SCCM 2012R2 today, and thanks to some Window-Eyes scripts I can get around and all parts read, but its very very clunky and I wouldn’t call myself fast by any means. We recently upgraded to 2012R2 SP1 CU1, and that actually broke all the scripts and we had to rush to get them fixed. So I’m holding off on this upgrade for as long as I can. However, to be able to manage any OS beyond Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB (including the non LTSB builds of Windows 10) we’ll have to upgrade eventually. On top of that, assuming I can get new scripts written, if Microsoft can upgrade this guy whenever they want, those scripts may not be for much. I’m meeting with our TAM and some PMs on the SCCM team Friday to talk about my concerns, I have little hope of anything happening, Microsoft already said accessibility will not be a part of the next release, but hey. Just wanted to let any other blind admins know about this if they hadn’t seen the posts already. Ryan _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins