Re: [orca-list] Using gnome on a remote system

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Sounds like what is needed, but the website seems to not have any remote
access bridge stuff. I think I know Sina from another list, so will try
and make contact there.

From
Michael Whapples
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 14:33 -0800, Peter Korn wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Sina Bahram and Mike Grace at NC State University developed the Remote 
> Access Bridge for just this purpose, and used Orca (among others) to 
> provide access to a remote Unix system, with the local system being 
> typically but not necessarily a Windows system.  The presented a talk on 
> this at CSUN last March.  It looks like their website 
> http://www.remoteaccessbridge.com/ is rather sparse, though it was 
> updated just last month. 
>
> I believe Sina hangs out in the Blinux mailing list.
>
> The basics of how it works: you use a Java client to initiate an ssh 
> connection to the remote host.  On that ssh connection, the bridge will 
> tunnel both a VNC connection for the visual desktop, an audio connection 
> for non-speech audio, and a speech connection using SSML for the strings 
> that are to be uttered.  The Java client connects the VNC connection to 
> a local VNC client on your desktop, routes the audio to the speaker, and 
> connects the SSML to any of a variety of local text-to-speech engines 
> (including MS SAPI).  Orca is running on the remote desktop, and uses 
> the SpeechDispatcher support for generating the SSML.
>
> I have only played with this a little bit - no serious banging on it so 
> I can't report back on stability.  But certainly what I saw was pretty 
> responsive and quite cool.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Korn
> Accessibility Architect,
> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
>
> > Hello,
> > I am asking this question on the behalf of someone else. Is it possible
> > to use gnome on a remote server and have accessibility? This question
> > can extend to either accessing the server from a windows client or a
> > unix client. If it is possible what would the setup need to be? Would
> > orca be run locally or on the server (assuming the client is running
> > gnome as well)? If orca is to also be run on the remote system, how does
> > the spoken output get output on the client machine? I know that previous
> > question depends on a lot, eg. if the synth is on the local machine or
> > server, if the synth is remote, how does the output from the synth get
> > to the client audio device, if synth local, how does orca pass the text
> > to the synth?
> >
> > I know there is quite a lot to this, but I don't know this area of
> > remote desktops too well as I have only used remote machines through
> > text based connections and speakup (locally) or I guess orca (locally)
> > could read the output from ssh without a problem. The access to gnome I
> > believe is more complicated and possibly more likely to not work quite
> > as one might excpect.
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > Michael Whapples
> >
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