[nfbcs] Putty accessibility

Sun Apr 16 16:58:34 UTC 2017

VM's that require splitting memory generally don't work well with Windows
when using a screen reader, particularly if the screen reader is JAWS.

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From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jack Heim via
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Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Putty accessibility

Have you considered using a virtual machine? I am a native linux user so I
don't know much about virtualization in Windows. But I use virtualbox and I
know that's available for Windows too. Virtualbox has a really nice command
line interface that I use to create and operate my virtual machines.
On 04/15/2017 11:30 PM, Kartik Sawhney via nfbcs wrote:
> I tried that option with Linux machines provided by my university, and 
> unfortunately, I can't ssh from the machine I have ssh'ed into due to 
> some permissions issues. I was able to get Putty working reasonably 
> though.
>
> On 4/15/17, Tony Malykh <anton.malykh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't know if I'm going too far, but I just had another idea that 
>> might involve no hacking. If you have access to a Linux machine, you 
>> might want to set up google cloud client thereand then ssh to that 
>> Linux machine and inside the ssh session do another ssh inside google 
>> cloud. I never worked with Google cloud, but since that's Google, I 
>> think they must have a Linux version.
>> And if you don't have a Linux instance at hand, you can get one in 
>> amazon EC2 cloud for $10 a year. That's what I do, and amazon's 
>> website is fully accessible with jaws.
>>
>> --Tony
>>
>>
>> On 4/15/17, Kartik Sawhney <sawhney.kartik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Yeah, will give it a shot. Thanks everyone.
>>>
>>> On 4/15/17, Tony Malykh via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi Kartik,
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking that if you cannot find a proper solution, you might 
>>>> try some hacking.
>>>> What would happen if you don't have putty installed on your computer?
>>>> Maybe the google client would ask you which ssh client to use?
>>>> If not, then what I would do is to replace putty.exe with my own 
>>>> program, that just prints out the command line arguments. This way 
>>>> you would know how the google client invokes putty. Once you know 
>>>> the arguments, you can translate them into a call to ssh.exe from
Cygwin.
>>>> You can even write a program that would do the conversion for you.
>>>>
>>>> --Tony
>>>>
>>>> On 4/15/17, Jim Barbour via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>> I'm not sure, but that seems like the kind of thing the web 
>>>>> browser could be configured to do differently.  That is, launch a 
>>>>> different SSH client.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim
>>>>>
>>>>> Written While on the Move
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Apr 15, 2017, at 11:13 AM, Kartik Sawhney via nfbcs 
>>>>>> <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have been using Cygwin for the past four years, and it works 
>>>>>> really well. Unfortunately, I cannot ssh into a Google Cloud VM 
>>>>>> on Windows through Cygwin. Apparently, it automatically launches 
>>>>>> it in putty, which is getting hard to work with.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 4/15/17, Louis Maher <ljmaher at swbell.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello Kartik ,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Before I retired two years ago, I would have recommended 
>>>>>>> SecureCRT  (access Linux through windows) Terminal emulator
>>>>>>> (http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/) instead of putty.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> JAWS worked very well with SecureCRT.  SecureCRT costs around $70.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>> Louis Maher
>>>>>>> Phone: 713-444-7838
>>>>>>> E-mail: ljmaher at swbell.net
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
>>>>>>> Kartik Sawhney via nfbcs
>>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2017 12:11 PM
>>>>>>> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>>>>>>> Cc: Kartik Sawhney <sawhney.kartik at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Putty accessibility
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Unfortunately, these do not work anymore. The menu has the 
>>>>>>> option to copy everything to the clickboard, but not paste.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 4/15/17, Willem Venter via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>> I haven't used it in years, but I know you can paste by 
>>>>>>>> pressing
>>>>>>>> alt+space and navigating to the edit menu, where there is a 
>>>>>>>> alt+paste
>>>>>>>> menu. Also, I'm not sure about this, but double tapping the 
>>>>>>>> insert key might paste too.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 4/15/17, Kartik Sawhney via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Has anyone used putty before? It seems like the only way to 
>>>>>>>>> paste from clickboard is by mouse. Is there a way around it? 
>>>>>>>>> Also, vim does not read out text in the console for some 
>>>>>>>>> reason. Are there any workarounds?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> -Kartik Sawhney,
>>>>>>>>> +1-(510) 766-3419
>>>>>>>>> linkedin.com/in/kartiksawhney/
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