Hi all, My manager has approached me with the opportunity to have a look at different courses to develop my skills and I'm a bit anxious about accessibility issues with what ever I choose. Background, I'm currently working in our security team, mainly responsible for our endpoint protection AV client and application deployments via config manager. I've previously been on an administering sccm training course; I've also done CompTIA security+, and CCNA 1 and 2. One aspect I have always struggled with is labs. With both sccm and CompTIA, the lab environment has been completely unusable, as it is accessing a hyperV host within a browser to start / use various pre-built VM's in various states. With CCNA, I did it in a classroom environment at college where we had access to physical networking equipment. The way I have sort of worked around these in the past is working on the labs with colleagues; with them basically doing all of the work, and I don't get much out of that. Exams are on the table also, however I'm apprehensive as I've been burned too many times by pearson vue completely ignoring / not understanding my extra accommodation requests. Does anyone have any solutions / workarounds? The course I was looking at is CompTIA CySA+, but I'm open to suggestions. Cheers, Kieran. Kieran Little Support Officer Solutions Design Assurance Information Services Northumberland County Council tel: 01670 623699 Mobile: 07966325130 Chat in teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=kieran.little@northumberland.gov.uk> Email: kieran.little@northumberland.gov.uk<mailto:kieran.little@northumberland.gov.uk> Save Time Do It Online! We have made a few key improvements to our site to make our services easy to access. Now you can do everything from paying your council tax, to reporting a faulty street light online. Go to: www.northumberland.gov.uk and click 'pay, apply or report' to access the relevant forms. This email is intended solely for the individual or individuals to whom it is addressed, and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this email is prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the email from any computer. All email communication may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with internal policy and relevant legislation. [Northumberland County Council Stay Home]
Hi. Its very much pot luck with the courses and access. It depends on what you are doing in the labs but I find it always better to get my own equipment sorted and do the lab on that. In some cases we have specific VMs so I will either get those from the course or download them as they are packaged from MS in my case. Using the VMs is the last resort and I typically like to run stuff from my machine. The only way I got anywhere with exams was with Firebrand. Its been 10 years since I used them last but my employer wants me to go with them again next year so will be interesting to see how that works out. I have tried this year to just do them at a test centre with help but no one wants to listen. Its very difficult as a blind person going on a course paid by your employer as if it doesn't work out you feel you've wasted money but there isn't much we can do and if the training does work out it's a bonus. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Kieran Little via Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: 28 September 2021 09:21 To: 'blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org' <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Kieran Little <kieran.little@northumberland.gov.uk> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] FW: Courses / labs Hi all, My manager has approached me with the opportunity to have a look at different courses to develop my skills and I'm a bit anxious about accessibility issues with what ever I choose. Background, I'm currently working in our security team, mainly responsible for our endpoint protection AV client and application deployments via config manager. I've previously been on an administering sccm training course; I've also done CompTIA security+, and CCNA 1 and 2. One aspect I have always struggled with is labs. With both sccm and CompTIA, the lab environment has been completely unusable, as it is accessing a hyperV host within a browser to start / use various pre-built VM's in various states. With CCNA, I did it in a classroom environment at college where we had access to physical networking equipment. The way I have sort of worked around these in the past is working on the labs with colleagues; with them basically doing all of the work, and I don't get much out of that. Exams are on the table also, however I'm apprehensive as I've been burned too many times by pearson vue completely ignoring / not understanding my extra accommodation requests. Does anyone have any solutions / workarounds? The course I was looking at is CompTIA CySA+, but I'm open to suggestions. Cheers, Kieran. Kieran Little Support Officer Solutions Design Assurance Information Services Northumberland County Council tel: 01670 623699 Mobile: 07966325130 Chat in teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=kieran.little@northumberland.gov.uk> Email: kieran.little@northumberland.gov.uk<mailto:kieran.little@northumberland.gov.uk> Save Time Do It Online! We have made a few key improvements to our site to make our services easy to access. Now you can do everything from paying your council tax, to reporting a faulty street light online. Go to: www.northumberland.gov.uk and click 'pay, apply or report' to access the relevant forms. This email is intended solely for the individual or individuals to whom it is addressed, and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this email is prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the email from any computer. All email communication may be subject to recording and/or monitoring in accordance with internal policy and relevant legislation. [Northumberland County Council Stay Home] _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
If you take courses at the local community college or tech school, they are legally required to make accomadations. I took a course intended to get you ready for a CISSP certification and the instructor actually enjoyed helping me find accessible ways to do the assignments. He said he was learning almost as much from me as I was from him. Not every instructor is going to be like that. A lot of them are going to be like, "I'm not getting paid for this." But, actually, they are getting paid for that. On 9/28/21 3:21 AM, Kieran Little via Blind-sysadmins wrote:
Hi all, My manager has approached me with the opportunity to have a look at different courses to develop my skills and I'm a bit anxious about accessibility issues with what ever I choose. Background, I'm currently working in our security team, mainly responsible for our endpoint protection AV client and application deployments via config manager. I've previously been on an administering sccm training course; I've also done CompTIA security+, and CCNA 1 and 2. One aspect I have always struggled with is labs. With both sccm and CompTIA, the lab environment has been completely unusable, as it is accessing a hyperV host within a browser to start / use various pre-built VM's in various states. With CCNA, I did it in a classroom environment at college where we had access to physical networking equipment. The way I have sort of worked around these in the past is working on the labs with colleagues; with them basically doing all of the work, and I don't get much out of that. Exams are on the table also, however I'm apprehensive as I've been burned too many times by pearson vue completely ignoring / not understanding my extra accommodation requests. Does anyone have any solutions / workarounds? The course I was looking at is CompTIA CySA+, but I'm open to suggestions. Cheers, Kieran.
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