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

["Peter op 't Hof" <opthofp xs4all nl>]

Hi,

You can reach Sian in the Blindprogramminglist.

Gr,

Peter.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples aim com>
To: "orca-list" <orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] Using gnome on a remote system


> 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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