Re: [Blind-sysadmins] AWS administration

I've had good luck with this command-line script for managing EC2 and S3: http://timkay.com/aws/ Chris On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 08:52:02AM +0000, Ian Sharpe wrote:

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

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: 15 May 2018 21:47 To: Blind sysadmins list 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.

-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins On Behalf Of Samuel Barnes Sent: 15 May 2018 21:13 To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] simulations in certification exams

I'm new to this mailing list, and to mailing lists in general, so please let me know if I'm not following established rules.

How do you handle certification exams that have simulation questions? The A+ and CCNA both had sim questions that I struggled through--especially A+ the CCNA, because the combination of Pearson's testing environment and ZoomText made the screens hard to navigate. I've lost more vision recently and am not sure if I'll be able to complete these types of questions. Pearson VUE's accommodations team offered the use of a scribe/reader, but I don't see how that could work on anything but multiple choice questions. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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