Following on from a comment made in another thread, I would be very interested to know how others are able to manage AWS resources using a screen reader?
I have spent considerable time trying to use the AWS web interface to initially just try to manage a single VM (EC2 instance), and was unable to even stop and start this resource using a screen reader.
I raised this with Amazon and asked whether they had an alternative way to manage AWS resources but the response I received suggested that the support didn't really understand the issue. This was a little surprising as in general, whenever I have raised accessibility related issues with Amazon they've been all over it, but not on this occasion unfortunately. They also said that they didn't provide a command line tool to manage AWS resources, as is the case with Powershell or the Azure CLI and Azure.
As a result, I decided my time would be better spent focusing on Azure. Indeed, I decided not to apply for a couple of roles which were advertised recently because they involved AWS.
So I'd be really interested to hear whether others are able to manage AWS resources using a screen reader and whether they feel they can be reasonably productive?
Thanks in advance.
Ian
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From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson
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Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] simulations in certification exams
Hi,
In a word you are pretty much screwed. Sorry but at the moment that is the best way I feel I cam sum up the process. I have done these simulation questions with a reader and it is all very much dependant on the technical expertees of the reader at the time. I spent a lot of money in 2011 getting certified with a load of MS qualifications, and I don't anticipate getting any further ones anytime soon because of the trouble it took. What is worse is we can now do these exams from home with a webcam, which means that a lot of test centres have shut down. However if you need special circumstances you can't do it from home at all.
On the other hand I am wondering whether employers are asking for these as much as they used to? Maybe the type of work I am doing doesn't warrant them so much (working with mainly cloud automation in Azure and AWS).
Welcome to the list by the way.
Andrew.
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