Hi. I'm using a custom image of ESXI for an HP Microserver. Whilst much of the web host interface is accessible, setting partition sizes, memory allocations and alike I found very tricky / impossible with JAWS / NVDA. It's difficult to say precisely why the web interface isn't as accessible as it should be as simply if you can't see something there with JAWS, you're not aware of what it's supposed to look like of course. Fortunately I already had VM Workstation on my laptop so was able to build and provision VMs from there and upload them. It is disheartening the inaccessability of many industry solutions and the means to obtain qualifications. Myself, I somewhat gave up on trying to get Cisco qualification as finding the diagramatic questions in the exams almost impossible to answer in good time using a scribe and no recourse to make my own notes. As you may all know, you can't skip a question and come back to it later. Likewise the inaccessability of several major pieces of software in the IT security field has lead me to put that on hold too. I spoke to someone at CompTia regarding the accessability or otherwise of their Security Plus exam but they never got back to me after a few atempts. Ha, sorry bit of a moan there but just for perspective. Regards Chris Turner On 27/02/19 19:17, Billy Irwin wrote:

Hi John,

I am certainly interested in reviving the effort. I didn't really know it existed. I think as time goes we are going to have more blind techknowledgests coming into the industry. I've seen a lot of us get discouraged or even change careers because of the limitations.

Best,

Billy L. Irwin - K9OH -----Original Message----- From: John G Heim Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 1:50 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Cc: Ryan Shugart Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: VMware ESXi administration

The semi-defunct International Association Of Visually Impaired Techcnologists was working with VMWare on accessibility at one time. VMWare itself was very supportive. They gave us $10,000 and a couple of VMWare ESXI licenses to use on a test platform.

That project fell apart for several reasons. One of the biggest was lack of interest from blind VMWare admins. But that might have been due in part to the way our contact at VMWare kind of took over the project. He clearly meant well but he seemed to feel it was his project. When you donate money, you can't dictate how it is spent. It's both illegal and unethical.

I think if I had it to do over again, I wouldn't accept the money. I don't know -- a non-profit turning down $10K? You can't do that. Another thing I could have done is to go over the guy's head. I didn't want to get him in trouble though.

PS: I am calling IAVIT semi-defunct because the board alredy voted to dissolve it. It hasn't happened yet because some people emailed me asking if it could be saved. That was months ago and I still haven't made up my mind what to do.

On 2/27/19 10:39 AM, Ryan Shugart via Blind-sysadmins wrote:> Hi:

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Do you know what version of ESXI/VCenter you'll be managing? Its been years since I was a VMWare administrator, but when I was the VSphere client would automatically upgrade itself when it connected to a newer VCenter server or ESXI host than it was designed for, and I know VMWare is really pushing the HTML5 client. Just being honest here, VMWare has a long way to go as far as being accessible goes. Their Workstation product is really good, but their server products leave a lot to be desired. I never had really good luck working with them on accessibility either, they were not very responsive, that was a long time ago though so it may be worth trying to reengage them. I definitely recommend looking at Powershell and the PowerCLI as you can do many things with that. However, if you need to use a lot of other VMWare products such as site recovery manager, you'll be out of luck. I can't really recommend a blind person build a career on VMWare administration for this reason, beyond the basics you won't be able to do much as a lot of the power of VMWare comes with their supporting products beyond ESXI/Vcenter. Ryan

-----Original Message----- From: Can Kırca Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 5:32 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Re: VMware ESXi administration

Sure, you can download from the following link that I mentioned:

https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fvsphereclie...

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Best.

2019-02-27 16:27 GMT+03:00, Chris Nestrud :

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Thank you both for this information.

If you've found a particularly usable client, I'd appreciate knowing

how to

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locate it.

Chris

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 08:37:13AM +0300, Can K??rca wrote:

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Hello,

Some versions are not, but VSphere client 6 is mostly accessible to do following tasks: Brows datastores and run all file/folder commands, Create virtual machine, edit/update virtual machine, manage snapshots and related commands, configure remote applications like SSH/SNMP, manage power, read tasks status and so on. If you want, I can share the client that I'm using.

Best.

2019-02-27 2:33 GMT+03:00, kprescott@coolip.net :

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If you manage with VCenter, use powershell with PowerCLI That works wonderfully for me. I use both powershell on Windows, and powershell on my Ubuntu Linux machine. There are good tutorials on PowerCLI. The html5 interface is almost useless.

-----Original Message----- From: Chris Nestrud Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 4:44 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] VMware ESXi administration

Hello all,

I'd appreciate any information on accessible administration of VMware ESXi servers. Creating and destroying VMs, monitoring status, etc. I understand that accessing VM consoles is probably not accessible. The ESXi VPAT suggests that the HTML5 client is not accessible, so I'm hoping that someone has found an alternative. I do not need to be able to install the ESXi server; another team will be responsible for that piece. Thanks in advance for any information.

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