[NFBCS] best solution for remote linux terminal work

[Brian Buhrow]

	hello.  As a long time Unix person who uses terminals over ssh on a
daily basis with screen readers, I strongly recommend you build yourself a
Linux box and ssh to your remote sites from there.  Then, you can either
use Speakup or Yasr as your screen reader.  I use Yasr with the eflite/flite
software speech engine.  This combination of software will give you full
access to screen oriented programs in terminal environments.  While I think
things are changing a bit, terminal access using Jaws, NVDA or VoiceOver
is, in my experience, doable, but very very suboptimal.  As proof of that,
you'll  probably get a number of folks writing back on this question
suggesting that terminal access works fine using the Windows screen
readers, but that you'll find it easier to edit files on the local Windows
machine and then transfer them up using scp or some other file transfer
protocol once you're done.  that is a very inefficient way to edit files on
remote servers.  The combination of software I suggest lets me edit files
with ease in their native environments on the servers on which they belong.

Hope this helps.
-Brian

On Aug 7, 11:59am, Ryan Boudwin via NFBCS wrote:
} Subject: [NFBCS] best solution for remote linux terminal work
} Hey folks,
} 
} I am considering a return to a technical individual contributor role. The
} job requires a significant amount of terminal work, over SSH to remote
} linux servers.
} 
} What OS/screen reader/ssh client combination is the best/easiest/most
} reliable to use? I have access to JAWS, NVDA or Voiceover as needed but I
} haven't done terminal work since my blindness hit.
} 
} Best regards,
} 
} Ryan Boudwin
} ryanboudwin at gmail.com
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>-- End of excerpt from Ryan Boudwin via NFBCS