[NFBCS] best solution for remote linux terminal work

[Littlefield, Tyler]

This very much depends on the user's level of experience. Using Jira, 
you're not going to have a lot of luck with Edbrowse or Lynx, simply 
because there is so much Javascript involved. I also wouldn't be able to 
walk into most corporate environments and pull out a laptop running only 
a terminal and have success in their environments.

So, is Linux usable? Certainly. Would I recommend he swap over to that 
for work? Likely not. Keep the system you know and simply augment it 
with something like Linux running in VMWare Player if you want to go the 
terminal route. Then you can do your web browsing, email, chatting, etc 
from the windows (or even Mac if you use VMWare Fusion), but have the 
command line terminal available.

I would also echo Chris's comments about SecureCRT, it does quite a lot; 
my only complaint is with their proprietary key support. Cursor tracking 
is made much easier in later versions of JAWS, I think starting in 2020, 
so you might want to give editing in the editor of your choice a shot there.

On 8/7/2020 3:04 PM, Gabe Vega Commtech LLC via NFBCS wrote:
> I think you have heard incorrectly sir. is it different sure. but its 
> not lacking in the least. both terminal and gui access is comparable 
> to windows or mac, and as stated in terminal works great.
>
> On 8/7/2020 11:55 AM, Ryan Boudwin via NFBCS wrote:
>> I'd also need to be able to use web applications and copy and paste
>> terminal output into JIRA; I'm concerned with how well that would 
>> work on a
>> linux-only box. I haven't used a linux screen reader before but I have
>> heard it's not the best experience.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Ryan Boudwin
>> ryanboudwin at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 12:40 PM Brian Buhrow <buhrow at nfbcal.org> wrote:
>>
>>>          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
>>>
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