[blindlaw] Remote Desktop and JAWS

[Stewart, Christopher K]

Hi All,

This may not be the optimal forum for this question, but I imagine
plenty of other lawyers have needed to use a vpn to access their work
computers from home. Today on my lunch break, I ran home, installed
the program that the court uses for remoting in, and started playing
around. I noticed a couple of things.

First, JAWS sounded funny, as though a low-fidelity version of JAWS
were being piped to my computer from the office, which may be what was
happening. Does anyone know if there is a way to get the version of
jaws running on my home computer to read the screen of my work
computer? I tried shutting down JAWS in the remote window, but that
only served to make everything go quiet.

Second, once I was into the computer remotely and alt-tabbing around
the various programs, I couldn't figure out how to get out. In other
words, I understand that for sighted folks, they can still look and
see the window which is their own computer, and when they're ready to
end the session, they go back over to that window and close out the
connection. But when I tried to alt-tab out of the remote session, it
didn't work, and instead kept cycling me through the programs that
were open on my work computer.

If anyone has any experience with this, please let me know.

Very Best,
Chris




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