Hi Scott, Interestingly enough I've just been through a similar situation with my current employer.
I know for a fact Jaws will work with citrix in a similar situation to the way jaws works with Remote Desktop on windows computers, Jaws needs to be installed to the citrix server and then you run a remote like session of jaws through the connection to the citrix server, If this is setup correctly then starting jaws at the log in and automatically afterwards should be doable with a Group policy on the windows server your authenticating to. I haven't tried it as their support in NZ is crap, but I believe window eyes has the same type of featurt and should work the same way. Again I've not tried window eyes but jaws I have. Now the thing you didn't want to hear and is still got me looking in to legal action. Citrix now have a system where the desktop being logged in to is a skin windows 7 or 8.1 over a server 2008r2 server environment, I think from memory it's called xenapp.. This is the V D I, The user would log in through a webpage that kicks in to life a citrix receiver application and then through that the user can log on to their virtual windows 7 machine. This is what we currently have at work for some staff and our student managed desktop environment. Now I'm not saying that our techs at work are no good but so far in the 18 months we've had this system, they have not been able to get jaws installed and to work in a full activated mode. They have installed it or published it to the VDI package with other applications and had it work in a state that is not enabled for a terminal session but that lasted about 1 minute before we killed it. I still think it can be done but that our techs didn't have the no how or ability to make it work and their attitude was along the lines of well you’re the only blind person there fore it's not of great importance So all I can say is if you've got good technitians aroud you that will look in to this with the wish to make it happen, then go for it. And Please let me know how you get it working! Otherwise it may not be a solution for you sorry to say, I so hope I'm wrong Good luck and I hope you can get this to work I really do. Good luckl. Simon f -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2016 2:35 AM To: MacVisionaries 'Chris Blouch' via <[email protected]> Subject: question about remotely accessing a Citrix VDI? Hi list, hoping some of the folks out there have run in to this and can provide some pointers. I am considering taking a new job and one of the requirements is to access a virtual desktop environment. It can be accessed via web browser or Citrix. I have voice over available on the Mac side of course and a virtual machine running windows 7 and JFW. The virtual desktop is windows 7. What tools do I need or what’s the process for remotely accessing this resource? I’ve used the remote desktop features of JFW years ago, is this something similar? Any help would be most appreciated. Host environment is Mac but we can run anything as a VM. Also open to other screen readers if JFW isn’t the best option. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
