An update re Comptia+ exam accomidations
Hi all. Just an update if it's useful to anyone else. It's taken a while but I have now been granted requested accommodations for the Comptia Security+ exam by Pearson Vue. There's nothing in the letter saying I can't share this info. SO. Accommodations are: Use a screenreader, my home system and extra time. I provided a copy of my blind registration certificate and a letter from my GP outlining the impact of sight loss on a practical level. i.e. I need to use a screenreader for all computer based tasks. I was sent a link to a test system. This tests your set up rather than it being an exam simulator. It will check you have no potentially problematic processes or services running, internet speed, camera, audio playback and microphone. My laptop actually failed this, despite the camera being enabled. I think there were some background processes related to VMWare it didn't like too. SO switched to my desktop using an external webcam. For obvious reasons, you need to disconnect any usb drives, close any other applications and also disable Dropbox. I couldn't kill the DB service so just uninstalled it. I could have probably stopped it starting in MsConfig I suppose but just wanted to complete the test. At one point, you are asked to check you can see yourself on screen. I used Aira via RIM for help with this. My desktop past the system test. In confirming this with Pearson Vue, I also let them know my desktop has no monitor screen and asked if the moderator during the exam could give me verbal instructions should I not be in view of the camera. Rather than risk disqualification because they can't see me of course. They have noted this. This was all pretty straight forward I'm glad to say. July is a busy month so I hope to book the exam in August. Regards Chris.
Thanks, and good luck! Chris On Fri, Jul 04, 2025 at 11:56:08AM +0100, Chris Turner via Blind-sysadmins wrote:
Hi all.
Just an update if it's useful to anyone else.
It's taken a while but I have now been granted requested accommodations for the Comptia Security+ exam by Pearson Vue.
There's nothing in the letter saying I can't share this info. SO.
Accommodations are: Use a screenreader, my home system and extra time.
I provided a copy of my blind registration certificate and a letter from my GP outlining the impact of sight loss on a practical level. i.e. I need to use a screenreader for all computer based tasks.
I was sent a link to a test system. This tests your set up rather than it being an exam simulator. It will check you have no potentially problematic processes or services running, internet speed, camera, audio playback and microphone.
My laptop actually failed this, despite the camera being enabled. I think there were some background processes related to VMWare it didn't like too.
SO switched to my desktop using an external webcam.
For obvious reasons, you need to disconnect any usb drives, close any other applications and also disable Dropbox. I couldn't kill the DB service so just uninstalled it. I could have probably stopped it starting in MsConfig I suppose but just wanted to complete the test.
At one point, you are asked to check you can see yourself on screen. I used Aira via RIM for help with this. My desktop past the system test.
In confirming this with Pearson Vue, I also let them know my desktop has no monitor screen and asked if the moderator during the exam could give me verbal instructions should I not be in view of the camera. Rather than risk disqualification because they can't see me of course. They have noted this.
This was all pretty straight forward I'm glad to say.
July is a busy month so I hope to book the exam in August.
Regards
Chris.
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