[nfbcs] Window-Eyes and Citrix

[Tracy Carcione]

I wrote to Window-Eyes support, describing the problem I'm having with
Citrix and Jaws and asking how they'd handle it, but they haven't gotten
back to me.
If W-E doesn't use authorization keys, would work have to buy a copy for
each server?  That would get expensive fast. 
Jaws alleges that it passes along the authorization key, but it seems to be
passed only once. Unless the server owner has made some mistake in the Jaws
installation.  FS seems to be getting tired of dealing with our phone calls.
Tracy


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
via nfbcs
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 1:53 PM
To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
Cc: Steve Jacobson
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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