[Nfb-web] Accessible SSH Clients

[Olivero, Tony]

Peter,

I have used both the Cygwin and Putty programs for SSH access. Here are some notes:

Cygwin:
- requires sighted assistance to get installed
+ offers many UNIX commands on the windows platform
+ behaves well with JAWS, correctly reading most text that is output to the screen.

PuTTY:
+ Can either be installed or run in "portable" mode
+ Connection configuration screen is accessible
- Terminal window sort of works, but if the end of the buffer is reached, it is easier to use the "clear" command and start with a fresh screen, else JAWS re-reads the entire contents of the screen. Also, it is necessary to switch JAWS into reading all changes to the screen "INSERT+S".

For the most part, I find myself lately using PuTTY.

I'm not sure what you need it for, but I have yet to find one of these programs that works well with an editor on the remote system. For making changes to config files, I generally scp them to my local machine, make the changes, and scp to the remote host.

HTH,

Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-web-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peter Donahue
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 13:30
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Cc: nfb-web at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfb-web] Accessible SSH Clients

Hello everyone,

    I will be using a virtual private server that can be administered via an SSH client. I thought I would enquire to see what SSH clients folks are using that will work with JAWS 12.0. By the way is Windows Power Shell an SSH client? Your recommendations will be very much appreciated.

Peter Donahue

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