[nfbcs] NVDA for work

[Jude DaShiell]

The last news I read on nvda, there was an nvda-remote package for 
situations like this.  No idea if it will work in this particular 
situation though.

On Thu, 7 May 2015, Steve Jacobson via nfbcs wrote:

> Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 13:53:13
> From: Steve Jacobson via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Steve Jacobson <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] NVDA for work
> 
> Tracy,
>
> In general, Window-Eyes does not use any authorization scheme within the United states.  However, I don't know if
> there is an authorization link of some kind established between Window-Eyes on a Citrix server and the one on your
> desktop.  My impression is that there is not, but I have never done it.  While I am pretty impressed with NVDA,
> there are still cases where JAWS and Window-Eyes work and NVDA does not work.  I also don't know if it has the same
> kind of support for Citrix that Window-Eyes and JAWS do.  It may, but you have to have a way to get the speech
> generated on the Citrix server by the screen reader back to your desktop since the speech isn't displayed on the
> screen.  In other words, if you tell the screen reader on the Citrix server to speak the current ling, nothing
> changes on the screen.  The speech generated has to get back to your desktop somehow and this involves some extra
> logic.  As I say, maybe NVDA does this, I don't know, but one can't assume it does.
>
> Since NVDA is free, if I were you, I'd give it a try on the software you use to see if it will work for you.  I use
> an old 3270 emulator and NVDA does not work with it while JAWS and Window-Eyes do.  Of course, there are most
> likely 3270 emulators that it will work with.  NVDA did not work with Lotus Notes the last time I checked although
> I read that they were trying to address that.  My point is just that there are still some differences.  I find NVDA
> to work pretty well on Microsoft Office applications, though.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Steve Jacobson
>
> On Thu, 7 May 2015 13:40:11 -0400, Tracy Carcione via nfbcs wrote:
>
>> Mike S, are you using NVDA for work?  I would be very interested to hear
>> generally what you do, and how NVDA is coping.  Are you, for instance, using
>> Citrix?
>> Please write me at carcione at access.net.
>> Thanks.
>> Tracy
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Sedmak via
>> nfbcs
>> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 12:05 PM
>> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
>> Cc: Mike Sedmak
>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Live Meeting, Adobe Connect, Webex
>
>> I can only comment on live meeting, and from my experience it is not
>> accessible.  By that I mean that content shared by the presenter comes
>> across as an image, not something that NVDA can interact with.
>
>> Mike
>
>
>> On 5/7/15, Cathy via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> I use WebEx at work, when we have meetings, I join by phone. There may
>>> be a dial-in number you can use for that.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On May 7, 2015, at 11:24 AM, Tracy Carcione via nfbcs
>>>> <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well, already the instructions on how to join the class and download
>>>> the materials aren't even accessible.  This doesn't look good.  It
>>>> appears to be a page scanned into a pdf, and is too blurry to read
>>>> with Jaws OCR or even my Optacon.  Multi-zillion dollar company, and
>>>> they can't even make a decent pdf. Off to find someone who can read
>>>> the d--- thing.
>>>> Tracy
>>>>
>>>>
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