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Hi Don, Dave, gang, The challenge(s) with making remote X sessions displayed locally accessible comes down to going with one of two approaches in our UNIX world of programmatic/API-based accessibility: 1. run a copy of the AT remotely, along with the remote X apps 2. connect the local copy of the AT to the remote X apps In the case of speech access, you must either have a remote copy of Orca receiving your keystrokes and sending back audio or some marked-up speech command (e.g. SSML) to be played locally; or you need the local copy of Orca to not only talk to the local apps via AT-SPI, but the remote apps over the network connection via AT-SPI. In the case of magnification access, only the latter approach (network connection via AT-SPI) is likely to work. Braille access could go either route, but there is less support in place to route the Braille over the network... As I think should be somewhere in the archives (from when I spoke to this topic before), a pair of computer science students at NC State University - Sina Bahram and Mike Grace - developed the Remote Access Bridge which routes a remote X session, remote audio (not normally handled by most remote X systems) and also SSML (speech synthesis markup) to a local computer running a local Java app that then plays the audio and uses a local text-to-speech engine and a local X server to run the app. See the website http://www.remoteaccessbridge.com/ I don't know what the status of the Remote Access Bridge is; I suspect it is not currently maintained. Long term, I think it makes sense to work on a remote connection to AT-SPI, and I echo Dave's suggestion to file an RFE to that effect. Regards, Peter Korn Accessibility Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Hi, Don, My memory of the thread includes a suggestion that the questioner try to track down a piece of existing software (name unremembered). The questioner tried to contact the author of that software and either couldn't contact them or the software no longer existed. Sorry for the fuzzy memory. I would suggest that you file an RFE. dave DON RAIKES ORACLE COM wrote:David, THanks, I was afraid of that answer :) I only saw one post on the archive with no answer just a question. -----Original Message----- From: David E. Price [mailto:deprice cs utah edu] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 6:17 PM To: DON RAIKES ORACLE COM; orca-list gnome org Subject: Re: [orca-list] accessing remote x-sessions Hi, Don, I think you need to take a look at the mailing list archive. I think there was a discussion of remote access using Orca within the last year. And, I'm afraid that, if my memory is correct, Orca can't be used with remote applications. If that is what you find in the archives, my only suggestion would be to file a bug against Orca on Bugzilla. dave ----- Original Message ----- From:<DON RAIKES ORACLE COM> To:<orca-list gnome org> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 6:47 PM Subject: [orca-list] accessing remote x-sessionsHello, I am running a local linux system (ubuntu hardy haron, or fedora 9) I have both types of systems available. I need to run several java-based xwindows applications on an rhel server at work. I can get connected to the server using ssh -X -Y and run the applications, but when they display locally, orca says they are inaccessible. I even tried a simple gedit session and an xterm session. I am logged into the remote system as a regular user, and have an .orbitrc file containing the lines: ORBIIOPIPv4=1 ORBIIOPUNIX=0 for both my user and the root user on the remote server. 1. Is there anything else that I need to do to enable the remote applications to be accessible locally? 2. do I need to install the gnome-accessbridge on the remote server's jdk to enable accessibility in the java applications? Any help/tips/tricks would be greatly appreciated. _______________________________________________ Orca-list mailing list Orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca_______________________________________________ Orca-list mailing list Orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca _______________________________________________ Orca-list mailing list Orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca_______________________________________________ Orca-list mailing list Orca-list gnome org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca |