[nfbcs] jaws and rdp

[Graham Mehl]

Hi Mike,

I am not sure which your wife is using. the shortcut to access the RDP
toolbar is Control Alt Pause. Then she will have to use the left and right
arrow keys to take the RDP session out of full screen mode or what I usually
do is just minimize the RDP session window. Once back to the local computer
she can use the traditional alt + tab shortcut to loop through the local
computer task manager. And then to go back to the RDP session she can loop
through the task manager and select the RDP session task. She may need to
use the earlier shortcut to maximize or return the RDP session back to
fullscreen mode.  as a FYI, unless a co-worker is looking at her screen with
her, there is no real need to put the RDP session in full screen mode. As
long as that session window is the active one, JAWS does not care if the
window is full screen or not. 

 

There are two RDP tools I am aware of: Microsoft and citrix. I only mention
this, because depending on how her system administrator configures the RDP,
the sessions may time out on her depending on how long she will be on the
local machine checking email or what not. My system administrator set our
time out to 60 seconds of idle time and the network connection would be
dropped. And then if the session it self was idle for more then 5 minutes
the session itself would time out and disappear. My system administrator
allowed me to reconnect to an already existing session if the network
disconnected me. Each tool has different default settings. Just a for
warning.

--

Graham 

blind at trailstone.com

 

 

 

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Subject: [nfbcs] jaws and rdp

 

Hi,

 

My wife is using rdp at work and needs to switch back and forth from the rdp
session to her desktop to see her outlook as part of her job. She is using
remote desktop to connect to their remote computer as there a way for her to
switch between her desktop and the remote session without having to log off?