[NFBCS] vm ware desktop

[Doug Lee]

Sadly I've often seen server configurations that do not support sending sound back to the client, and I've heard that some admins and IT folk don't want to permit that for various reasons. Network bandwidth is not an argument
I'd heard before, though it would have at least made some sense to consider that.

I'd say, if you don't have sound support in your VM, ask for it and see what happens. It sure can't hurt and can make emergency Narrator launches actually practical.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 02:46:19PM -0500, NFBCS mailing list wrote:
You would have to have a sound driver on the virtual desktop.  I don't know
if the typical server configuration has a sound driver, but when I used
remote access with jaws, there was no sound driver on the virtual desktop. I
was told sending sound over the network takes too much band width. But, it
was over 8 years ago when I used this so things may be different now.

The JAWS remote access feature sends a speech/braille data stream from the
virtual desktop to the local JAWS which uses the sound driver on the local
computer. The only sound you will get with JAWS  is the speech and you get
no Windows sounds.  

No sound driver is required on the remote desktop when using JAWS with
remote access. .
You don't realize how helpful the other sounds are until you don' have them!

Steve
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From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Brian Buhrow via NFBCS
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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] vm ware desktop

	hello.  Here's a question that may not make sense, but I'll ask it
anyway.  While you're waiting for Jaws to get installed, can you log into
your remote virtual desktop and start narrator remotely?  If that works, you
could then install NVDA into your account on the remote server, I think NVDA
can give you good access without requiring administrative  privileges on the
remote server, which might allow you to get some work done while you wait.

Just a thought.  I've not tried it.
-thanks
-Brian


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