June 2018 - Blind-sysadmins - lists.hodgsonfamily.org

Enabling memory integrity protection on Windows 10 Pro 1803
by Jason White 12 Aug '18

12 Aug '18

On the aforementioned Lenovo laptop (Windows 10 Pro 1803 with updates applied), I tried unsuccessfully to enable memory integrity protection in Windows Defender Security Center to improve over-all security. First, I discovered scripts on Lenovo's Web site that enabled me to change the UEFI (BIOS) settings from within Windows. https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht100612 This is much better than having to enlist help to change the firmware configuration. I enabled Intel virtualization support, then rebooted the machine and confirmed that virtualization was in fact enabled using System Information. I wanted virtualization anyway, so this was a desirable change on multiple grounds - not only the need to enable it for virtualization-based security. I then tried to enable memory integrity protection in Windows Defender Security Center. The resulting error message, presented as a notification, asserts: "Memory integrity can't be started. There may be an incompatability.. There may be an incompatability on your device.. . Received at 8:51 PM" I'm curious - has anyone else here tried it, and if so, with what results? I'm running JAWS 2018, although I have no reason to believe that it may be involved other than the fact that it uses its own video and braille display drivers. Various hardware drivers from their respective vendors are of course installed as well. For anyone who has enabled Memory Integrity Protection, have there been any adverse consequences?

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using slack with Jaws
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

Hi, A few weeks ago I asked about Skype for business and thank you to all those who responded, but there has now been a change and we are moving to Slack. My immediate thoughts about it is that although it is accessible, it is not very usable. There is a lot going on and too much clutter. I would be interested to hear any tips/advice on how other people get around it? Many thanks for your advice. Kind regards, Chamandeep Singh Grover

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Foreign language speech synthesis
by Fernando Botelho 23 Jun '18

23 Jun '18

Hi everyone, I am part of a team developing a way to bring low-cost computing to blind kids in developing countries. One of our challenges is working with non-Western languages and alphabets for use in Africa. Right now we are working on Arabic and I was hoping to find a blind person who spoke that language and is based in the US. If you are blind and use computers in Arabic or know someone who does, please get in touch with me by e-mailing: fernando(a)f123.org Thanks, Fernando

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hexadecimal in braille?
by Samuel Barnes 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

How is hex indicated in braille? Constantly having to escape strings of digits and letters with the number and letter signs sounds super bulky. I know 8 dot braille uses dropped numbers, but that would make letters and digits harder to discern.

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OT: coding partner
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

Hi, I have a very good friend in India who wishes to advance his programming skills. He is looking for someone who can work with him on a project, where they both learn together or for him to receive some mentoring in this area. He is a very quick learner and has been learning for several years, so has a good understanding of basic programming concepts. What he needs is a point in the right direction and to work with someone. He is happy to adapt to any language, but has a lot of experience in python and would like to work developing web or desktop applications. I would love to work with him, but my work and personal commitments unfortunately do not allow this consistently. Communication with him will only be via email or text chat. You must not be a complete beginner. If there is someone who is perhaps in the same position and needs a partner to work with, or if you are good at teaching programming and how to use frameworks, please llet me know and I will put you in touch. Thank you, Chamandeep Singh Grover

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MBAM
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

Has anyone experience with using MBAM with SCCM? Might want to pick your brains. There's plenty of documentation out for SCCM 2012 but very little for SCCM 2016. Also the UI for the configuration wizard isn't great. Form fields don't read very nicely. Why must all these teams in Microsoft reinvent the wheel? What was wrong with edit fields? Why did they feel the need to mess with a perfectly good standard? Surely they had better things to do with their time? Then the documentation. It's not so bad I suppose. But I'm giving it a domain account. Why can't it just provision the database and then the right permissions ofr that database. Why do I need to create the accounts then create the permissions that are needed on the database before the database is created. Seems like a waste of time for me. Given that even I could run up some code that creates a database then associates a domain account with that database while giving it just the permissions it is going to need. It seems like lazy development in my opinion. Sorry. I'm ranting. I read the MS documentation on why this is going to save me problems down the line and though to myself, why not. I'll quickly add this to my SCCM server. I didn't think I was going to have so many hoops to jump through. Anyone want to chime in? I'd be interested in your experiences with MBAM. Do I have much more of this messing to look forward to? Currently waiting on yet more validation on a configuration wizard. Darragh Daunted but not defeated by the Drudge of daily fighting with enterprise tech to make it do what I want.

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Accessibility of EasyVista ITSM software
by Chris Nestrud 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

Anyone have experience with EasyVista ITSM Software, particularly regarding screen reader accessibility? http://www.easyvista.com I'm particularly interested in the administrative interface for working with requests and incidents, along with the responsive apps that can be created to provide interfaces for end users.

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database help
by Marvin Hunkin 17 Jun '18

17 Jun '18

Hi. Okay, got a few databases, .mdf. for school projects. Now when I try to create a database in sql management studio, and put in a name, says for example AdventureWorks2014. Says database is empty. Also like for example trying to attatch the Adventure Works 2014, but says it could not be attatched, and does not give me a reason why. Also when I try to then restore the AdventureWorks2014 database. Says it could not be restored, and does not say why. Also when I try to use the import / export wizard should I use the 64. Did try the 64 bit import. But does not bring up the tables, and does not import the database, AdventureWorks2014, and gives no error messages. So any ideas. Do I need to repair sql management studio. Any ideas. And had to install or repair sql management studio 2017 and also sql server 2017, when I upgraded to windows 10 1803 64 bit and using jaws 2018.1085.33 64 bit. So has any one run into this issue. And have the same issues, and yes, tried the t-sql, and would not do that either. Kept giving me an error. Thanks.try --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Changing emails
by Fermin, German 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Hi I need to change my email address but I only see an option to leave it. The page that I use to have where I could see the archives of the list can't be reached. Hope someone can help or direct me to instructions. Thanks German

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Wordpress accessibility
by Christian 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

Hi all, Has anyone experience with Wordpress when it comes to accessibility? Creating a website etc. Many thanks for any help!

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free tool to repair corrupted sql management studio databases
by Marvin Hunkin 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

Hi. Using windows 10 64 bit pro, and using sql management studio 2017.7 express. 64 bit pro. Now got a whole bunch of databases, and then it messed up when I upgraded to windows 10 1803, and using jaws 2018.1805.33 64 bit pro. Have tried googling. But now cannot add a new database, when I put in the name, and click add, and then okay, keeps saying empty database. Also will not allow me to attach .mdf databases just keeps telling me error, and could not attach. Cannot restore a database, keeps just saying error and the database could not be restored. And also when I try to import, databases. And they are the correct .bak files, does not import. Don't have a credit card and paypal. Did try the built in sql management database tools, but would not work, kept giving me an error. Could not find it, even though did point to the correct databases. So, how to fix and any free, accessible database tools or do I just use visual studio community 2017 32 bit, to attatch the databases, and will that connect to it in sql management studio. Had this issue, since I then upgraded to windows 10 1803 64 bit, when it did not install the whole sql, and so had to repair and then got the latest version. Did try sql management studio 2016, 64 bit, but did not make any difference. Any ideas. Thanks.. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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accessibility of ZScaler
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

Hi all, My company are introducing ZScaler for security and VPN and I wanted to ask everyone here whether there are any accessibility issues with this tool and Jaws? If so, what are the workarounds? Any information would be useful to have. Thank you Chamandeep Singh Grover

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Accessible and effective hardware diagnostic tools? (Linux/Windows)
by Jason White 10 Jun '18

10 Jun '18

I just installed and ran CrystalDiskInfo and found it to be screen reader accessible. It reads the SMART data from your hard drive or SSD and reports any drive errors - see my output below. It's available at https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskInfo 7.6.0 (C) 2008-2018 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 17134] (x64) Date : 2018/05/28 15:37:42 -- Controller Map ---------------------------------------------------------- - Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller [SCSI] + Standard NVM Express Controller [SCSI] - SAMSUNG MZVLW1T0HMLH-000L7 -- Disk List --------------------------------------------------------------- (1) SAMSUNG MZVLW1T0HMLH-000L7 : 1024.2 GB [0/0/0, sq] - nv ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) SAMSUNG MZVLW1T0HMLH-000L7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model : SAMSUNG MZVLW1T0HMLH-000L7 Firmware : 6L7QCXY7 Serial Number : S35ANX0J502953 Disk Size : 1024.2 GB Buffer Size : Unknown # of Sectors : Rotation Rate : ---- (SSD) Interface : NVM Express Major Version : NVM Express 1.2 Minor Version : Transfer Mode : PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 3.0 x4 Power On Hours : 444 hours Power On Count : 1322 count Host Reads : 4457 GB Host Writes : 4401 GB Temperature : 33 C (91 F) Health Status : Good (100 %) Features : S.M.A.R.T. APM Level : ---- AAM Level : ---- Drive Letter : C: -- S.M.A.R.T. -------------------------------------------------------------- ID RawValues(6) Attribute Name 01 000000000000 Critical Warning 02 000000000132 Composite Temperature 03 000000000064 Available Spare 04 00000000000A Available Spare Threshold 05 000000000000 Percentage Used 06 0000008B4C4E Data Units Read 07 000000898D4C Data Units Written 08 000007F26ED8 Host Read Commands 09 0000075F0D84 Host Write Commands 0A 000000000313 Controller Busy Time 0B 00000000052A Power Cycles 0C 0000000001BC Power On Hours 0D 00000000006C Unsafe Shutdowns 0E 000000000000 Media and Data Integrity Errors 0F 0000000004C5 Number of Error Information Log Entries -- IDENTIFY_DEVICE --------------------------------------------------------- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 000: 144D 144D 3353 4135 584E 4A30 3035 3932 3335 2020 010: 2020 2020 4153 534D 4E55 2047 5A4D 4C56 3157 3054 020: 4D48 484C 302D 3030 374C 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 030: 2020 2020 4C36 5137 5843 3759 3802 0025 0000 0002 040: 0200 0001 86A0 0001 4B40 004C 0000 0000 0000 0000 050: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 060: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 070: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 080: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 090: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 100: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 110: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 120: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0017 0307 130: 0316 043F 0101 0156 0159 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 140: 6000 77A5 00EE 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 150: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0023 0000 160: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 170: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 180: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 190: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 200: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 210: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 220: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 230: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 240: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 250: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 -- SMART_NVME -------------------------------------------------------------- +0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +A +B +C +D +E +F 000: 00 32 01 64 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 020: 0B 4D 8B 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 030: 0A 8E 89 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 040: 03 7E F2 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 050: 60 1C 5F 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 060: 13 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 070: 2A 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 080: BC 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 090: 6C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0B0: C5 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 32 01 43 01 00 00 00 00 0D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 On 5/28/18, 14:58, "Blind-sysadmins on behalf of Jason White via Blind-sysadmins" <blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org on behalf of blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote: Thanks, Glen. I'm wondering whether one of the Linux system administration-oriented distributions such as GRML can do likewise. Someone last week also suggested running Windows with the swap file temporarily turned off, to eliminate use of the SSD as virtual memory. On 5/28/18, 14:46, "Glen Gordon" <GGordon(a)VFOGroup.com> wrote: Jason, Going down the path of the problem potentially being the SSD, I recommend buying and running a copy of Spinrite. https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm The good news is that it can diagnose and repair most hard drive and SSD issues. The bad news is that it runs in DOS. Last time I had JAWS for DOS running in the late 90s I was able to get Spinrite to work with it, but that was many moons ago and with the help of QEMM. The reason that I recommend going down the Spinrite path is to help incriminate or eliminate the SSD. I think it can do that. --Glen Glen Gordon VFO | Vice President & Chief Technology Officer 11800 31st Court North, St. Petersburg, FL 33716 T 727-299-6230 ggordon(a)vfo-group.com www.vfo-group.com -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> On Behalf Of Jason White via Blind-sysadmins Sent: Monday, May 28, 2018 1:35 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Cc: Jason White <jason(a)jasonjgw.net> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Accessible and effective hardware diagnostic tools? (Linux/Windows) I have a relatively new laptop that is causing trouble. Symptoms include Windows kernel crashes with various bug check codes reported in the logs, seemingly random program crashes, and Microsoft Outlook data file corruption (even after deleting the .ost files and re-creating them). This machine has been returned to the manufacturer under warranty, but they failed to find any hardware problem, choosing to re-install Windows as a remedy, which didn’t last. (i.e., data corruption and program crashes recurred). A local hardware repair vendor also failed to find any issue. To be fair, the BIOS-level tests didn’t reveal any hardware problems when my colleagues at work ran them. However, Microsoft Memory Diagnostics repeatedly report bad pages. After running the Memory Diagnostic again last week, the system appears to have crashed, then rebooted, reporting drive errors that it “fixed” by returning to a restore point when the repair operation failed. I ran Memory Diagnostics again, this time returning the report below in the Windows logs. I plan to install Linux on this machine, possibly in a dual-boot configuration, but I want to identify and detect any hardware issue first. Are there additional tools, preferably screen reader accessible, that I could run either under Linux (e.g., a GRML or Arch installation image written to a USB device) or Microsoft Windows that would help to identify the underlying problem – whether it’s a RAM module, the system board, the SSD, etc.? Any other advice would be appreciated, as I’m not receiving quality diagnosis from the vendor or a third party company that I’ve tried. Here’s the Memory Diagnostics report: + System - Provider [ Name] Microsoft-Windows-MemoryDiagnostics-Results [ Guid] {5F92BC59-248F-4111-86A9-E393E12C6139} EventID 1102 Version 0 Level 2 Task 0 Opcode 0 Keywords 0x8000000000000000 - TimeCreated [ SystemTime] 2018-05-26T03:58:10.809049100Z EventRecordID 2272 Correlation - Execution [ ProcessID] 7656 [ ThreadID] 1100 Channel System Computer jpw.jasonjgw.net - Security [ UserID] S-1-5-18 - UserData - Results LaunchType Manual CompletionType Fail MemorySize 32574 TestType 10 TestDuration 3577 TestCount 12 NumPagesTested 8289129 NumPagesUnTested 1535 NumBadPages 2 T1NumBadPages 0 T2NumBadPages 0 T3NumBadPages 0 T4NumBadPages 0 T5NumBadPages 0 T6NumBadPages 0 T7NumBadPages 0 T8NumBadPages 0 T9NumBadPages 2 T10NumBadPages 0 T11NumBadPages 0 T12NumBadPages 0 T13NumBadPages 0 T14NumBadPages 0 T15NumBadPages 0 T16NumBadPages 0 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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Fortinet or paloalto Next Gen Firewalls
by Billy Irwin 09 Jun '18

09 Jun '18

Greetings Group, Have any of you ever dealt with Fortinet or paloalto Next Gen Firewalls and their accessibility? I am looking to purchase 2 of them to secure our networks and replace our existing OpenVPN solution. Thanks, Billy L. Irwin Systems Administrator Elauwit Networks

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Big upgrade to the lists
by Andrew Hodgson 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

Hi all, Just to let you know there has been a major Mailman upgrade on the lists.hodgsonfamily.org lists and this means that the interface is quite different on the web side now. Hopefully everything is self explanatory but let me know if you have any issues. Likewise there may be some issues we need to work through as the system beds in. Thanks, Andrew.

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Quick assist with screen reader?
by Ryan Mann 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Windows 10 has a built-in feature to give remote assistance called Quick Assist. Has anybody used this with NVDA or JAWS? I am able to connect to the other person’s computer, but I can’t seem to actually control it. When I do something such as hitting the Windows key, the start menu is opened on my computer, not there’s. If they do something, neither JAWS or NVDA reads the output. I thought somebody told me this was accessible, but maybe not? Thanks. Ryan Mann Computer Instructor/IT Specialist Center For The Visually Impaired DaytonaBeach, FL 32114 Phone: 386-253-8879 EXT 111

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Jaws and Skype for Business
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi All, The company I work for Is soon switching to Skype for Business as the internal communication tool from Cisco Jabber. As you may know, Skype for business is a rebranding of the older Lync software. Does anyone have experience of its accessibility and any additional steps one must take to enhance the usability of this? I know that there are some scripts around, but wanted to get peoples' thoughts. Thank you Chamandeep Singh Grover

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Jaws and Skype for Business
by Chamandeep Singh Grover 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi All, The company I work for Is soon switching to Skype for Business as the internal communication tool from Cisco Jabber. As you may know, Skype for business is a rebranding of the older Lync software. Does anyone have experience of its accessibility and any additional steps one must take to enhance the usability of this? I know that there are some scripts around, but wanted to get peoples' thoughts. Thank you Chamandeep Singh Grover

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Service now - is it as usable as it could be with a screen reader
by Andrew Hodgson 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi, I have just started using Service Now as part of my new job. i am mainly raising change control items, and adding to tickets. I am finding it a slog to use with JFW and Chrome/Firefox. It is very unclear when fields are read only, there seems to be non-standard combo boxes on the fields, and I am often shunted around on the page for no reason. Is anyone else having similar experiences? i don't know to what extent the system is customisable by the company, even though it is hosted by Service Now. Thanks. Andrew.

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Service now - is it as usable as it could be with a screen reader
by Andrew Hodgson 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

Hi, I have just started using Service Now as part of my new job. i am mainly raising change control items, and adding to tickets. I am finding it a slog to use with JFW and Chrome/Firefox. It is very unclear when fields are read only, there seems to be non-standard combo boxes on the fields, and I am often shunted around on the page for no reason. Is anyone else having similar experiences? i don't know to what extent the system is customisable by the company, even though it is hosted by Service Now. Thanks. Andrew.

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