Re: [orca-list] Remote Access?

[Mewtamer <mewtamer gmail com>]

While I'm quite happy with ssh for most of my remote access needs,
perhaps the obvious follow up question is whether any of the remote
desktop access methods allow for running Orca on the remote system and
having it's audio output streamed to the local system... or perhaps
even reducing the network overhead and only streaming audio from the
remote system.

Granted, there would probably be some latency between issuing a
command, sending it to the remote system, the remote Orca reading
stuff as appropriate, and sending the audio back, but persumably no
more than with a sighted person issuing a command, sending it to the
remote system, and then the remote system's display being streamed
back, especially since audio uses less bandwidth than video, and it
would require the remote system have Orca on it, but surely that's
better than only having screen shots of the remote system that one
would have to constantly OCR and which would limit the user to what's
on screen(even ran locally, Orca would be crippled if it was limited
tojust the text displayed on screen and couldn't report information on
the structure of the interface/document or access metadata and
alt-text, and while I'm not sure of the use case for running a web
browser remotely, the biggest reason Firefox is the only graphical
application I use on a regular basis is because Orca's navigational
hotkeys are just too darn useful and I'd hate to try to use a
graphical browser without them).