[nfbcs] Helping a software engineer keep his job

[Ian C. Bray]

Gary,
It has been my experience that this is a more difficult thing to accomplish 
than one would think.
I am too an old Sys
Admin & Analyst, and since I've lost my vision, and tried to find my way 
back to the IS IT Field, it has been nothing but frustration after 
frustration.

I have managed to use Command Shell Telnet on Windows machines to telnet 
into my UBUNTU  boxes, but I had to install TELNET which is unsafe in orter 
to do this.

I know of professionals that use Putty and JAWS  to do the same, but I 
cannot get Putty working.

Correction-- Putty works fine... JAWS doesn't work well on my XP  machine 
that I'm using to telnet in.

Ideally, Orca, espeak, or emacsspeak ( are all free rpm installable ) should 
get the job done,
but I cannot find any help to get it working.

Ian


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Wunder via nfbcs" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
To: "'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 11:47 AM
Subject: [nfbcs] Helping a software engineer keep his job


> Several days ago I was contacted by a software engineer who is going 
> blind.
> He uses the Linux operating system, and what he really needs is a way to
> efficiently do the things that are required of him as a programmer for
> Lockheed Martin. His employer seems to be willing to get him any equipment
> that might help him in his job, so they have gotten him Zoom text, the
> K1000, and I think they have even purchased several copies of JAWS for
> Windows for him to use on several computers. Of course all of these are
> based on Microsoft Windows, and what he really needs to interact with is a
> Linux box. He has figured out a way to do some terminal emulation that 
> lets
> him use screen reading technology, but all of the workarounds really make 
> it
> difficult for him to do what once was efficient.
>
>
>
> Do any of you have ideas about how to help him? My impression is that he 
> is
> smart, motivated, well regarded by his employer, but at his wits in as to
> how to do his job and to meet the deadlines that are being offered. He is
> monitoring this list and will appreciate any comments that people care to
> give. I will be monitoring the list, but I will be on vacation and rather
> out of touch for the next ten days or so. I thank all of you for thinking
> about this and giving him your best ideas. His name is Graham Mehl.
>
>
>
> Warmly,
>
>
>
> Gary
>
> Linix operating system
>
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