[NFBCS] has anyone taken the EC Counsil certified network Defender certification?

Sun Oct 5 03:01:49 UTC 2025

Hi Amelia,

I have looked into taking the CEH exam. If you or your University has 
access to O'Reilly Media, it used to be Safari Books Online, there are a 
ton of computer books on certifications from CEH, CompTIA and others. 
Bookshare also has many O'Reilly books in accessible format.

Second, you mentioned virtual environments. Yes, you could SSH into the 
virtual machines. However, some of the tools they may want you to use 
have graphical interfaces. The command line tools would be fine with the 
SSH interface but but may not work with some of the graphical interface 
utilities. If there is a screen reader, either JAWS, NVDA, or Orca for 
the Linux programs on both the local and remote web system, the virtual 
machines may work for you.

There are many knowledgeable     people on this list who can help who 
may know more than I do about these issues, but I am happy to help.

Feel free to write me privately if I can help more at: 
Beth.chocolategeek at gmail.com.

Best Regards,

Beth

On 10/3/2025 5:20 PM, Amelia Pellicciotti via NFBCS wrote:
> Thanks Chris.
> I will follow up on that.
> Best Regards, Amelia
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2025 7:59 PM
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> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] has anyone taken the EC Counsil certified network Defender certification?
>
> Amelia,
>
> The page at https://www.eccouncil.org/contact-us/ suggests an email address of support at eccouncil.org and a phone number of
> +1 (833) 675-1925.
>
> Best of luck.
>
> Chris
>
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 01:42:06PM -0500, Amelia Pellicciotti via NFBCS wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> My college institution utilizes the EC Counsil curriculum to teach
>> their certified network Defender Certification.
>>
>> I cannot complete my course labs at present, because the browser has
>> the virtual machines imbedded in an image that sighted students would
>> click on to interact with live operating systems. I know that
>> underpinning this setup is Hyper V virtualization. So, setting up a
>> remote desktop or ssh connection for myself and the other blind
>> student should be fairly easy and straightforward.
>>
>> Further, there are also problems with the pdf of the textbook. We use
>> the Vital Source textbook app to access the course content, but the
>> version of the book that was uploaded into their software is a scanned
>> image, thus when I arrow through the reading pane, jaws and NVDA say
>> blank, blank, blank. I might have otherwise tried to OCR the images of
>> the book, but it is 4400 pages!
>>
>> The problem is that I have been siloed and shut out of any
>> communications with the publisher, ECCounsil. ECCounsil lists an email
>> address of support at eccounsil.com <mailto:support at eccounsil.com>  as
>> their support ticket email address. However, every time I contact this
>> address my email bounces. It would appear that this domain is not
>> accessible to the public facing internet, or it no longer exists. Yes,
>> I am working with a department head at my university. When I have
>> brought up these concerns, she explained to me that they want to work
>> on making the PDF of the textbook accessible first. Meanwhile, my instructors have already assigned 8 labs.
>>
>> We tried looking for the Certified Network defender 3rd edition on
>> Amazon Kindle, but it is not available there, on bard, with Learning
>> Ally, or with Bookshare.
>>
>> This decision to solely work on the pdf was made without my consent,
>> and I do not see how this precludes  different departments from
>> working on both things at the same time. I work at the SOC at my university, and have VPN
>> access, so I also suggested being permitted to     build my own virtual
>> machines on the school servers. This idea was likewise nixed, because
>> there are specific files and scenarios needed for each attacker/victim simulation.
>>
>>
>> I am searching desperately for anyone in the computer science Division
>> that has gone through EC Counsil certifications before, and provide us
>> some guidance on how you studied and practiced the material. I was
>> also told that we do not have the option of hosting their VDI files on
>> our servers, because that could be a violation of the contract with ECCounsil.
>>
>> I am very much hoping for any guidance and advice that you can give.
>> Please, no doom and gloom about how horrible accessibility is for
>> blind people in the IT space.
>>
>> I am looking for solutions, not to waste the thread by complaining.
>> Please reply only if you have suggestions when dealing with something similar.
>>
>> Could advocating with the NFB be the solution? I have to continue at
>> my current university, at least for the time being because my working
>> as a paid intern is contingent upon my being registered for classes,
>> irrespective of the subject. I had considered unenrolling from the
>> tech courses to instead focus on something else, such as my needed
>> core science courses. However, I feel that response will only result
>> in kicking the can down the road, and not giving EC Counsil  an incentive to push forward with this.
>>
>> Best Regards, Amelia
>>
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