From my knowledge, the content vendor of the exam sends the information to the exam vendor. The exam vendor then uses their exam engine to display the information. Hense you have to approach both groups to make the final exam accessible. The content vendor is for the graphical information and the exam vendor is to ensure the exam engine is accessible. Does this make since?
RedHat does all this internally and I believe they do not use any external vendor. They give you a braille exam and you can bring in equipment to connect to the server. Not sure if they will provide a text version for those who cannot read Braille or are very slow at it.
Sean
On 7 Jan 2015, at 4:40 am, Andrew Hodgson
Hi,
Could another approach be to contact the exam venders themselves since Microsoft have now also gone over to Pearson?
Andrew.
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of John G Heim Sent: 06 January 2015 14:58 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] IAVIT and Cisco
Cisco has an employee volunteer program. http://csr.cisco.com/pages/employee-volunteers
This is how we got a foot in the door at VMware. I asked around until I found a VMware employee with some interest in helping visually impaired people. The guy we found has a visually impaired daughter. He has been awesome.
I actually got really lucky in finding our contact at VMware. I don't know if I could duplicate that wrt Cisco. But I think working through the employee volunteer program is a good approach.
Obviously, I can't do it all. In the case of Cisco, I have even less first hand knowledge than I do with VMware. We would need a group willing to put some time and effort into the project. It's going no where without that.
The VMware project may lend som legitimacy for a team from IAVIT approaching Cisco. As I said in another message, that project is sort of on-hold. But we could get a similar project going for working with Cisco and be ready to hit the ground running once that project takes off.
On 01/06/2015 08:15 AM, Darragh Ó Héiligh wrote:
John,
I'm interested. Have VMware made any accessibility related changes?
ESXI 5.5 in it's flash form is rubbish!
Sighted admins agree! They are even going over to Hyper-V and Xen to get away from Flash.
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If anybody is interested, this sounds like something the International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists would be willing to help with.
I'd like to follow an approach similar to what we did with VMware. When we contacted VMware, they were very responsive. They've been cooprative to the point of it being almost a burden. We weren't ready for everything they wanted to do. I think this bears out my theory that these companies are willing to cooperate if we can get them to understand the problem.
If anybody is interested in forming a team to work on this, let me know.
On 01/06/2015 02:20 AM, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
Hi,
I tried to do the CCNA exam back in 2010 and really had issues with the diagrams and descriptions etc. You can't do the exam independently and have to rely on someone describing the diagrams and pushing the relevant buttons etc. It helps if you can find someone who has some knowledge of the material to do this. I moved onto Microsoft exams and they are more doable because they don't rely on diagrams as much.
Someone did take one of the test centres to court back in 2006 and they got diagrams for the exam in an accessible format, but nothing further happened. I don't believe the test centres get enough requests to get these exams in a usable format and every time I try and take an exam it is a real mess. I need to renew my Microsoft MCITPs but I just don't have the energy to go through all the burocrasy. If you can find a test centre or a training partner that is on board then that is the best option. A company called Firebrand really helped me to get through the exams and that is the best experience I have had taking the exams.
Thanks. Andrew.
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Hello, I am interested in becoming Cisco certified. Do any of you have experience with the Cisco exam? How have you been able to have it made accessible to you? How did you do the simulators? Do any of you know where I could obtain a copy of the ICND1 and ICND2 official cert guides with all graphics described?
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