[NFBCS] Terminal emulation

Wed Feb 12 16:14:38 UTC 2020

Tracy,

I totally agree with your frustration. Everyone in my company is using Blue
Zone for 3270 emulation and I am still on IBM PCSW because I can't get Blue
Zone to work with JAWS. Now I am having great frustration with IBM PCSW so I
need to look for a new option I suspect.

Thank goodness I have proven my ability to get the job done or I would not
be able to keep my job.

It is very frustrating to require a different emulator because I have to be
my own support. Every time I get a new laptop I am required to make sure
they have installed my special emulator. It seems as though, as time goes
on, I need to have more and more different software than my colleagues
because less and less works well with JAWS. Currently I am required to
submit time sheet changes to someone else to apply to my time sheet because
I can't use our time sheet software.

Okay, I will step off of my soap box and just say that, as a blind person in
the technology field, you need to be self-motivated to make sure your
software works well enough to get the job done.
Sometimes that means finding a different software package than other
coworkers use that works more efficiently with JAWS.  

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Hi Steve.
It is very frustrating.  My sighted colleagues get a nice, shiny, new laptop
and go straight back to work.  For me, what has worked great for decades
stops working, and I have to spend literally days trying to figure out how
to make something work again, tweaking what I've got and trying demo copies
of something else, with no real guarantee of success.  And the outcome has
nothing to do with my skills as a programmer, or even necessarily the skills
of Jaws tech support.  
It's not really a mystery why so many capable blind people are unemployed.
Some people get tired of banging their heads against a wall, and some
accessibility problems don't seem to have any solution.
I'm lucky my old machine still works, and my boss is patient.
Tracy

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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Terminal emulation

Tracy,

I know I am not being of much help here and I'm sorry about that.  However,
I found that with earlier versions of Windows 10, I'm not sure how early,
the font that came with my terminal emulater would not always work.  JAWS
would simply not recognize it.  In my case, it was the entire screen and not
just when I typed, but it was an issue.  I had to use a different font to
get around the problem as opposed to the font size.  In my case, though, the
font that JAWS was not recognizing was also not displaying, so it might be a
different problem entirely.  Still, my experience has been that sometimes
things that don't seem to have any connection to a given problem seem to fix
it.

I would probably want to determine if the characters that I type are
recognized by the JAWS cursor.  If it does, does the JAWS cursor identify
the font of the characters that you typed as being different than the other
fonts on the screen.  Of course, the attributes could be different.  Also,
does the Font of the character at the cursor look different when you are
typing?  The point of doing this, if you aren't giving up completely, is to
see if you have some kind of a font display problem or a cursor tracking
problem.  I'm not sure how JAWS support could know for sure that the cursor
size settings might not help unless they went through this with you, unless
one can't use the horizontal and vertical settings to look for two different
cursors.  It is very possible that could be the case, though and they might
be right.  This is the sort of thing, though, that frustrates me about the
accessibility issues that we face.  Sometimes it is just complicated and we
don't even know who should
  have the greatest responsibility.  Of course, Glen Gordon may have some
better information on this. 

Sometimes one has to just make a decision and look for something else,
though.  I understand that.  As you can see, nothing will probably just work
without any challenges.  Probably the demo version of QWS3270 is worth
checking in case it is a good fit.  

Best regards,

Steve

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Subject: [NFBCS] Terminal emulation

I am really stuck.  Hummingbird works well, so long as I don't type.  Once I
start typing, according to Jaws, the font goes to no font, and Jaws can't
find the cursor.
I called Jaws, and they just said to try a bunch of font sizes.  I did that,
but it all works the same--typing turns to no font.

I asked Jaws if changing the cursor dimensions through the setting center
would help, and the gal said no.

Hummingbird is what my coworkers are using, and it's so close to working for
me, but not close enough.  I guess I'll have to try other software, when I
can get someone with admin rights to install a demo copy for me.

I'd welcome any ideas more useful than randomly changing fonts.
Tracy

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