[nfbcs] Accessible virtual environment needed

[Jim Barbour]

Hey Patrick,

I'm about to dump a lot information, most of it incomplete, in this
email.  Feel free to reply to me, or the list, with more questions.

Usually when people talk about virtual machines they mean using
something like vmware to run linux inside an running windows machine.

What you're describing sounds more like you just want to book linux
from a CD and use it for something.

If you want to learn a new screen reader, you can use orca, which is
built into Ubuntu.  So, you'd boot your CD, push a magic keystroke to
turn on orca, and go from there.   I will say that Orca is not a
mature as JAWS, so you'll likely have your frustrations with it.
However, people do use it and like it.

you can start learning about orca on Ubuntu at this URL

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Accessibility

An easier approach, if you just need shell access to linux, might be
to have both windows and Ubuntu running at the same time, and then
access Linux using an SSH client from your windows machine.

There are two ways to have both linux a windows running at the same
time.  One way would be to have two machines.  The other would be to
have vmware running on your windows machine, and boot up Ubuntu inside
of vmware.

In other case, you'll need to configure your linux to accept ssh
connections, and install an ssh client (PuTTY is one, there are
others) on your windows machine.

That's probably enough to get you started.  Talk with others and find
out if you'll just need shell access, or if you need access to Gnome
based applications as well.

Take Care,

Jim

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:24:58AM -0400, Patrick B wrote:
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> Hey all,
> I am in need of an accessible way to connect to a Ubuntu Linux virtual environment. I've been provided a CD which can be used to boot a computer straight into it, however this naturally will not work with JAWS. If anyone has a solution it would be greatly appreciated, thanks. 		 	   		  
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