December 2016 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Facebook groups
by Jad Wauthier 03 Jun '17

03 Jun '17

I have created two Facebook groups. the first is Tech Makers. My objective with this group is to provide a convenient medium for people who are technology creators to discuss relevant topics and get feedback from peers. I hope that anyone who is interested in collaborating about tech topics will join and add others who might be interested in participating. The other group is Project Connect. the goal for this group is to provide a convenient medium for developers, admins, and others to discuss and share ideas about their projects. Sometimes, you have a project you are excited about, but you don't know how to get others on board with it. Other times, you might want some side project to work on, but you're not sure of what things other people are doing. I hope that people will join this group and share their ideas and possibly connect with others. -- Jad Wauthier | Problem Solver Phone: 512.290.3494 Fax: 512.367.5925 It's all in the perception.

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BackToBasics: desktop support feedback?
by Zameer Mahomed 24 Dec '16

24 Dec '16

Hello there everybody. Firstly, I would like to thank you in advance, should you feel obligated to reply to my message. I know it has absolutely nothing to do with system administration, however, since you guys have climbed up the ladder and do what I can only dream of, I thought I'd try asking for your help as you reflect on those days. I've been given an opportunity to be able to work for a company for 2 months. I believe they will place me in desktop support. The screenreader I will be using is Dolphin Supernova. My primary screenreader is jaws, which I know many people use, but that's a story I cannot talk to the company about just yet. I have completed my A+, and do believe that should help me in some ways, but I'd like to know in a corporate environment, just what can and cannot be done regarding desktop support from a visually impaired perspective . My concern is mainly the areas which are inaccessible such as the bios, and remote support, making the assumption that they don't allow any screenreader installed on their pc's. With regard to the hardware side of things, could you also please offer some tips if possible? I have been repairing pc's for customers in the past, but it was not on a formal level at all hence my message. I'd like to thank you for your time reading this message and do appreciate any replies in advance. Kind Regards

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Windows 10 creators update
by Katherine Moss 24 Dec '16

24 Dec '16

Hi all, Can anyone speak on whether the supposed integration of Narrator with the installation/setup/PE process will also extend to server operating systems? Nothing about said integration was mentioned in the blog post, though you would think that something could be done about it ... if one side of an interface is accessible, then all sides of it ought to be.

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Update on Finding an Intruder
by Steve Matzura 23 Dec '16

23 Dec '16

Still haven't found it, but I do have more informatioin on the hardware on the network there. The cable modem is an ancient Scientific Atlanta (now Cisco) DPC2100. The copyright on the manual is 2003, so it's got to be old. I'm thinking of having it replaced with an ARRIS SB6141. Does anyone know anything about this one, such as, can it be re-flashed with third-party firmware? The router is another oldie, the Linksys E2500. The Wireshark output is just horrendous. I'm still trying to process it all.

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repartitioning HardDisk
by Ibraam Wahib 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

hello dears please, I've old hard disk, I need to fully format it, and repartition it. which accessible tool should use in this task from windows os? it will be better if it could run portable to access it throw win7_pe-talking. I did this task from some years, for this not remember good, system partition should be primary, and data once logical? thanks very much.

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Wireshark
by Steve Matzura 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

I have a friend with a big problem. Something is eating his network alive. Could be a computer, could be the modem, in which case a re-flash of firmware will fix it. All his computers are virus- and badware-free, according to up-to-date installations of antivirus and all kinds of anti-badware softwares. Meantime, I thought I'd see what Wireshark is like with a screenreader, test it locally, get my friend to install it, Tandem into that machine, run it, and see what's what. FORGETABOUTIT! Using the JAWS cursor doesn't do much, not even with the OCR feature. There are some tabbable dialogs, or screens that act like they're dialogs, but to kick the thing started, I just cannot seem to get it to start listening and collecting packets and doing its thing with them. I remember using this tool way back when it was EtherNim and thought it was pretty accessible. But that was more than a decade-and-a-half ago, and times (and obviously software) have changed. Anyone got any accessibility hacks for Wireshark, or can recommend another tool that runs on anything--Windows, OS X, some Linux--heck, I'd even run it on a Raspberry Pi if it's accessible!!--that will do the same thing? Thanks in advance.

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jaws silent
by Ibraam Wahib 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

hello dears could i find any script or batch file which help me to install jaws and add scripts to it totally without user interaction? fully silent instalation. thanks

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Windows 10 creators update
by Katherine Moss 17 Dec '16

17 Dec '16

Hi all, Can anyone speak on whether the supposed integration of Narrator with the installation/setup/PE process will also extend to server operating systems? Nothing about said integration was mentioned in the blog post, though you would think that something could be done about it ... if one side of an interface is accessible, then all sides of it ought to be.

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transfer a img file to sd card
by mattias jonsson 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

On windows I tried win32 disk imager Totally inaccessible Anyone have a accessible way?

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accessible PBX?
by Mobeen Iqbal 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

Hello Everyone. I've spent the weekend tearing my hair out with free PBX. For some reason, I can't seem to get my dial plans right or to be able to make outgoing calls, probably because of the way I've entered something in the interface. Does anyone have any idea which system I could use as an alternative? I want something that's easy to administer, that isn't going to take hours and hours to set up and that essentially works without too much head scratching to work out where you've gone wrong, editing endless config files etc. If it could run on a raspberry Pi, all the better as I have a few lying around. I hope someone can shed some light. Cheers, Mo.

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commandline administration
by Ryan Shugart 13 Dec '16

13 Dec '16

Hello everyone: While the topics of commandlines and administration was still on everyone's mind, I wanted to throw a question out there. For those who primarily use the commandline for administration, be it Bash, Powershell, whatever, if you could wave a magic wand and have anything you wanted in a commandline interface, what would it be? In otherwords, what could someone do to make your commandline experience even better than it is today? For those of you who are primarily using the GUI for administration, what would make you shift more to the CLI? Thanks. Ryan Ryan Shugart Program Manager II, Cloud+Enterprise Accessibility Microsoft Corporation 425-705-1262

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transfer a img file to sd card
by mattias jonsson 13 Dec '16

13 Dec '16

On windows I tried win32 disk imager Totally inaccessible Anyone have a accessible way?

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Oracle Busines Inteligence
by Michał Dziwisz 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

Hi, This is slightly oftopic, but is somebody using Oracle BI, specialy BI composer? Oracle says about accessibility of this software, but I have some questions, because I just start playing with it. If somebody is using BI, please contact me by e-mail: michal(a)dziwisz.net. Best regards, -- Michał Dziwisz <michal(a)dziwisz.net>

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commandline administration
by Ryan Shugart 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

Hello everyone: While the topics of commandlines and administration was still on everyone's mind, I wanted to throw a question out there. For those who primarily use the commandline for administration, be it Bash, Powershell, whatever, if you could wave a magic wand and have anything you wanted in a commandline interface, what would it be? In otherwords, what could someone do to make your commandline experience even better than it is today? For those of you who are primarily using the GUI for administration, what would make you shift more to the CLI? Thanks. Ryan Ryan Shugart Program Manager II, Cloud+Enterprise Accessibility Microsoft Corporation 425-705-1262

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Administration using powershell.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

On the topic of using PowerShell as a full alternative to various inefficient UI's, I'd be really interested in hearing from someone who uses PowerShell exclusively for administering any system. Especially Active Directory, DFS, IIS, Office365, Azure VPN, Azure VM's, VMware VM's, SCCM and AzureSQL PAS. If there are people using PowerShell exclusively for administration of any of these applications, it would be fantastic to colaberate on building a repository of helpful scripts. Or, if there's one already out there, contributing to it. Thanks

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Accessibility of Azure web UI
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

This Azure interface drives me crazy. It seems to randomly change. I certainly didn't have these problems about six weeks ago because I successfully created a test VPN without any problems. Today, I had to do it again but what should have been a 5 minute job took 40 minutes because both the Azure web UI and Jaws 18 were fighting with each other. When there's a new notification, Jaws starts to stutter.nonononononononononononononononononononononononononononontifications is frequently spoken. This is the start of what is less than an acceptable situation. A few of the problems I found today are: 1. the link to add subnets and add Subnet gateway is not properly labelled. 2. It is no longer possible to select the location for your Azure resource. a grid might or might not appear but pressing space doesn't add the contents to the edit box. 3. Sometimes Jaws gets stuck. During this time when pressing shift and E, instead of looking for the last edit field it's telling me I'm not in a table. 4. The filter drop downs are no longer bringing out the next blade to the right of the screen. There used to be a select or filter button but I don't know where this has gone. Sometimes pressing down and space will bring up the filter blade but not all the time. I'm using IE11 on windows 10 X64 with Jaws18. All Jaws updates and Windows updates are applied. Can someone make my experience known to the Azure UI developers please? This needs to be fixed. Thanks Darragh

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Administration using powershell.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

On the topic of using PowerShell as a full alternative to various inefficient UI's, I'd be really interested in hearing from someone who uses PowerShell exclusively for administering any system. Especially Active Directory, DFS, IIS, Office365, Azure VPN, Azure VM's, VMware VM's, SCCM and AzureSQL PAS. If there are people using PowerShell exclusively for administration of any of these applications, it would be fantastic to colaberate on building a repository of helpful scripts. Or, if there's one already out there, contributing to it. Thanks

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Accessibility of Azure web UI
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

This Azure interface drives me crazy. It seems to randomly change. I certainly didn't have these problems about six weeks ago because I successfully created a test VPN without any problems. Today, I had to do it again but what should have been a 5 minute job took 40 minutes because both the Azure web UI and Jaws 18 were fighting with each other. When there's a new notification, Jaws starts to stutter.nonononononononononononononononononononononononononononontifications is frequently spoken. This is the start of what is less than an acceptable situation. A few of the problems I found today are: 1. the link to add subnets and add Subnet gateway is not properly labelled. 2. It is no longer possible to select the location for your Azure resource. a grid might or might not appear but pressing space doesn't add the contents to the edit box. 3. Sometimes Jaws gets stuck. During this time when pressing shift and E, instead of looking for the last edit field it's telling me I'm not in a table. 4. The filter drop downs are no longer bringing out the next blade to the right of the screen. There used to be a select or filter button but I don't know where this has gone. Sometimes pressing down and space will bring up the filter blade but not all the time. I'm using IE11 on windows 10 X64 with Jaws18. All Jaws updates and Windows updates are applied. Can someone make my experience known to the Azure UI developers please? This needs to be fixed. Thanks Darragh

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