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simulations in certification exams
by Samuel Barnes 16 May '18

16 May '18

I'm new to this mailing list, and to mailing lists in general, so please let me know if I'm not following established rules. How do you handle certification exams that have simulation questions? The A+ and CCNA both had sim questions that I struggled through--especially the CCNA, because the combination of Pearson's testing environment and ZoomText made the screens hard to navigate. I've lost more vision recently and am not sure if I'll be able to complete these types of questions. Pearson VUE's accommodations team offered the use of a scribe/reader, but I don't see how that could work on anything but multiple choice questions.

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simulations in certification exams
by Samuel Barnes 15 May '18

15 May '18

I'm new to this mailing list, and to mailing lists in general, so please let me know if I'm not following established rules. How do you handle certification exams that have simulation questions? The A+ and CCNA both had sim questions that I struggled through--especially the CCNA, because the combination of Pearson's testing environment and ZoomText made the screens hard to navigate. I've lost more vision recently and am not sure if I'll be able to complete these types of questions. Pearson VUE's accommodations team offered the use of a scribe/reader, but I don't see how that could work on anything but multiple choice questions.

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label makers
by Kelly Prescott 10 May '18

10 May '18

What do you all find a good alternative to ordinary label makers like you label cables and servers with? I often do installs, and we are expected to label equipment. Does anyone have experience with a accessible alternative? I see that some of the brother label makers have USB interfaces, maybe that would work, but I haven't tried it. Any thoughts, observations, or suggestions would be appreciated. -- Kelly Prescott

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Freedom scientific accessibility display driver and RDP
by Jason White 01 May '18

01 May '18

I'm not familiar with the issue, but note that the latest JAWS 2018 release now includes an "accessibility driver" option that you can uncheck. If I am understanding the release notes correctly, this will enable newer data gathering techniques as an alternative to relying on the JAWS video driver to build an off-screen model, thereby no longer using the driver. You might still receive the error message if you uncheck this setting, but at least the display driver won't be used (assuming that I'm properly interpreting the release notes). On 4/24/18, 17:05, "Blind-sysadmins on behalf of Anatoliy Shudrya" <blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org on behalf of anatoliyshudrya(a)hotmail.com> wrote: Got it, Thanks for the info. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> On Behalf Of Timothy Spaulding Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 1:55 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Freedom scientific accessibility display driver and RDP Hi, This issue is known both by VFO and Microsoft. However, there is no quick and/or current fix for it. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> On Behalf Of Anatoliy Shudrya Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 4:52 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Freedom scientific accessibility display driver and RDP Hi, When I RDP to remote PC on windows 10. Latest OS, latest JAWS 2018, I get JFW alert "The freedom scientific accessibility display driver is not installed properly, pls do the repair etc. Is this something related to the display driver of my Lenovo machine? I have tried to remotely reinstall JAWS, I still get the error. Anybody experiences same thing? Is there quick solution to this without performing JAWS repair? If this is not sys admin related, please forgive. D Kind Regards Anatoliy _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.hod… _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.hod… _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

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Video screen capture software.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

This is a little off topic but it relates to system administration in a way. I need to record a number of instructional videos. Camtazia is something I've used for this before but I didn't find it completely accessible. Based on feedback from previous videos: I'm looking for the following functions. 1. While recording, zoom into the area around the control that has focus or alternatively, the area of the screen containing the mouse. 2. Enable me to move through the video easily and select parts for deletion. 3. Enable me to speed up segments of the video. For example when waiting for installers to finish. 4. Enable me to paste screen shots or other graphics at specific points. Has anyone needed to do this? If so, what have you used? Thanks Darragh

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Video screen capture software.
by Darragh Ó Héiligh 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

This is a little off topic but it relates to system administration in a way. I need to record a number of instructional videos. Camtazia is something I've used for this before but I didn't find it completely accessible. Based on feedback from previous videos: I'm looking for the following functions. 1. While recording, zoom into the area around the control that has focus or alternatively, the area of the screen containing the mouse. 2. Enable me to move through the video easily and select parts for deletion. 3. Enable me to speed up segments of the video. For example when waiting for installers to finish. 4. Enable me to paste screen shots or other graphics at specific points. Has anyone needed to do this? If so, what have you used? Thanks Darragh

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win10 in UEFI with secure boot
by David Mehler 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

Hello, I am trying to get a Lenovo laptop to boot off of a thumb drive, which is not working. The system is in UEFI mode and has secure boot on. If anyone has a Lenovo is there a way I can turn one or both of these temporarily off so I can boot from thumb drive and reinstall win10? Thanks. Dave.

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Freedom scientific accessibility display driver and RDP
by Anatoliy Shudrya 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

Hi, When I RDP to remote PC on windows 10. Latest OS, latest JAWS 2018, I get JFW alert "The freedom scientific accessibility display driver is not installed properly, pls do the repair etc. Is this something related to the display driver of my Lenovo machine? I have tried to remotely reinstall JAWS, I still get the error. Anybody experiences same thing? Is there quick solution to this without performing JAWS repair? If this is not sys admin related, please forgive. D Kind Regards Anatoliy

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Freedom scientific accessibility display driver and RDP
by Anatoliy Shudrya 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

Hi, When I RDP to remote PC on windows 10. Latest OS, latest JAWS 2018, I get JFW alert "The freedom scientific accessibility display driver is not installed properly, pls do the repair etc. Is this something related to the display driver of my Lenovo machine? I have tried to remotely reinstall JAWS, I still get the error. Anybody experiences same thing? Is there quick solution to this without performing JAWS repair? If this is not sys admin related, please forgive. D Kind Regards Anatoliy

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Re: [Blind-sysadmins] win10 in UEFI with secure boot
by Isaac 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

it is well documented on google. Hear is the following as the first google result below. " 32bit is unable to boot on a UEFI GPT disk computer. Only 64bit will work." https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn640535(v=vs.85)… I downloaded a Windows 8.1 Single Language 64 bit ISO strictly as a test (as Microsoft doesn't make Bing version available (yet?) for download), used Rufus to set partition scheme to GPT for UEFI and file system as FAT32 and created the new image. WARNING: If your laptop came with Windows 8 or 8.1 with Bing you will not be able to install any other version of Windows 8 or 8.1 other than Bing. You might be able to use a generic key during setup to get it installed but your Windows will not be activated afterwards as your OEM key is integrated into your firmware and will not activate any other version of Windows 8 other than with Bing. Make sure you have secured either a recovery partition or ISO of this exact version before wiping off your hard drive. If you have used the correct Windows 8 with Bing ISO you will not be asked to enter a product key during setup but rather will be taken straight to the Terms & Policy agreement page. Once I plugged in the flash drive, it booted right away into installation setup while in Secure Boot enabled / Legacy Support disabled mode. This was what I was trying to do all along. Regarding my other laptop with the Windows 10 experiencing the same problem: I was so preoccupied with fixing the Windows 8.1 laptop that I never bothered to reformat my flash drive to GPT and FAT32 and had mistakenly installed the correct 64 bit but as a NTFS file system. All I had to do was create a new image with the right settings (above) and sure enough Windows 10 recognized the flash drive immediately and I now have Win 10 installed with Secure Boot enabled / Legacy Support disabled. Lesson learned: 1. Download correct 64 bit ISO and don't settle on 32 bit even though the OS will still work for the most part. 2. Format your flash drive as GPT partition and FAT32 using Rufus - Don't use Windows USB/DVD Download Tool as it automatically creates NTFS format without you being able to control its settings and it also doesn't provide you options on controlling the partition schemes. Rufus will save you a lot of time and running around. 3. If installing a fresh Windows, boot the ISO with Secure Boot enabled/Legacy Support disabled otherwise you can't change it afterwards. ----- Original Message ----- From: "M F Mason" <mfmason(a)blinding-flash.net> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org>; "'Blind sysadmins list'" <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org>; "'Ben Mustill-Rose'" <ben(a)benmr.com> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 10:58 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] win10 in UEFI with secure boot > Hello, > > If I had had a question relating to BIOS UEFI and accessibility, > This is just the forum I would have chosen for my query. > I would cautiously question the notion that the idea of a blind person > wanting to learn more about how to boot from a USB pen together with the > need of changing BIOS and UEFI settings is well documented on Google. > > I hope people continue to contribute > and share their knowledge about such issues. > > Many thanks, > > Mike. > > At 21:10 23/04/2018, matt.bsa(a)wh1t3.net wrote: >>I tend to agree with Brian and Ben. Many of these questions are not really >>accessibility-related and are well documented, every-day things that we >>all deal with. >>Since traffic is generally light I don't get too worked up about the >>oddball questions--but, since you asked ... >> >>Then again, I have been in the field for 20 years so my perspective may be >>a bit jaded. >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Blind-sysadmins <blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> On >>Behalf Of Brian Moore >>Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 09:16 >>To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org>; Ben >>Mustill-Rose <ben(a)benmr.com> >>Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] win10 in UEFI with secure boot >> >>personally, I don't have a problem. >> >>However, I have to concur with Ben about the ability to dig up stuff >>yourself. This is probably my most frequently used IT skill and really >>should be tried before writing to a list like this. I am happy to help if >>I know something but when I encounter questions that have an answer that >>would have taken less time to look up than to write the email with the >>question, it can get a little frustrating if there are a lot of them. >> >> >>Brian. >> >> >>On 04/23/2018 7:40 AM, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote: >> > Hi >> > >> > It doesn't bother me but that's only because this is a low traffic >> > list. Booting windows 10 isn't really sysadmin related. Accessible >> > ways of reading credit cards definitely isn't sysadmin related. >> > Motherboard choices aren't sysadmin related - I could go on. >> > >> > I've also noticed that a large number of questions on this list aren't >> > actually blindness specific and could be resolved with a quick Google. >> > Tough love time, but if you can't be bothered to Google something >> > you're going to find it incredibly hard to get any kind of job in the >> > IT industry. There are frequently days at work where my most valuable >> > skill isn't IT related per se - it's my ability to find things out for >> > myself. This is paticularly important for blind people as the >> > constraints that we operate under mean that we'll typically need to do >> > more research than others when it comes to learning new systems and >> > the like. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Ben. >> > >> > On 4/23/18, Kieran Little via Blind-sysadmins >> > <blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote: >> >> Doesn't bother me. >> >> >> >> On 23 April 2018 at 12:10, Andrew Hodgson <andrew(a)hodgson.io> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi, >> >>> >> >>> Seconded about the media creator tool. Also I think the issue is >> >>> the USB drive shouldn't be GPT itself. >> >>> >> >>> On a side note I am wondering if people are generally ok with all >> >>> the discussion about booting, WinPE and recovery stuff that seems to >> >>> get posted to this list? If they are it's not a problem, and we >> >>> haven't had any complaints, but these topics I think could be >> >>> discussed on more of the general lists possibly? >> >>> >> >>> Discuss. >> >>> Andrew. >> >>> ________________________________________ >> >>> From: Blind-sysadmins >> >>> [blind-sysadmins-bounces(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org] >> >>> on behalf of Ben Mustill-Rose [ben(a)benmr.com] >> >>> Sent: 23 April 2018 10:26 >> >>> To: Blind sysadmins list >> >>> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] win10 in UEFI with secure boot >> >>> >> >>> Try it with the media creation tool from Microsoft. If it won't boot >> >>> using that you have other issues as the drive will be UEFI & secure >> >>> boot compatible if you use that tool. >> >>> >> >>> On 4/23/18, David Mehler <dave.mehler(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> Hi, >> >>>> >> >>>> I used rofus and wrote win10 1709 iso to a thumb drive. I used gpt >> >>>> partition for UEFI and Fat32 format. >> >>>> >> >>>> Thanks. >> >>>> Dave. >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> On 4/22/18, Ben Mustill-Rose <ben(a)benmr.com> wrote: >> >>>>> How did you write win 10 to the drive? >> >>>>> >> >>>>> On 4/22/18, David Mehler <dave.mehler(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>>>> Hello, >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> I am trying to get a Lenovo laptop to boot off of a thumb drive, >> >>>>>> which is not working. The system is in UEFI mode and has secure >> >>>>>> boot on. If anyone has a Lenovo is there a way I can turn one or >> >>>>>> both of these temporarily off so I can boot from thumb drive >> and reinstall win10? >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> Thanks. >> >>>>>> Dave. >> >>>>>> >> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>>>> 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 >> >>>>> >> >>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>> 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 >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Blind-sysadmins mailing list >> >>> Blind-sysadmins(a)lists.hodgsonfamily.org >> >>> https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins >> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Kieran Little >> >> IT Apprentice >> >> Information Services >> >> Northumberland County Council >> >> County Hall >> >> Morpeth >> >> NE61 2EF >> >> Service desk: 01670 627004 >> >> Direct: 01670623699 >> >> Email: kieran.little(a)northumberland.gov.uk >> >> Website: www.northumberland.gov.uk >> >> >> >> -- >> >> <http://www.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. 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