Hi Tim and others, This is stuff I do both at work and home.
For jaws to work in a windows remote situation Jaws has to be firstly installed on the server or machine that you are connecting to remotely. E.g. the server. In the jaws installation settings there is an option for either typical or custom setup. Here the user chooses custom and then in the next screan arrows down once to the remote option and tapping the space bar will give you a number of different settings I always choose to run everything from the local hard drive After that you can carry on and finish the installation of jaws, Then on your own windows environment or machine you have jaws setup and again you will have had to install it with the remote settings installed either server all or client, Once that is installed and your client / local machine has a valid jaws authorisation you can run up the windows remote desktop program RDP and start a connection to the server machine, One of the tabs in the RDP client in windows is to allow you to start up applications on the server machine remotely at log in, here I normally set mine to start jaws on my own servers / machines and not worry about group policies. Once you have logged in to the server machine remotely and with luck jaws is running your using a slightly slower version of windows as you would on your local machine Simple as that really.. that's windows to windows. I've not tried anything else recently in the way of remote tools such as VNC but last time I did try it they didn't work for me The windows rdp tool uses the jaws authorisation key on your local machine to licence the jaws on the remote machine otherwise it wont work for us. I believe the remote session is a form of graphical interface but don't ask me what is different. As for a mac to windows, I've not tried this recently or at least since I think it was Mountaion lion, but the VNC in mac OSX didn't work at all for me, and the mac version of the Microsoft RDC remote desktop connection allowed me to connect to my windows machine and start up jaws, but jaws had no real functionality due to the graphical interface of the remote tool being used, And jaws also wouldn't pick up on the authorisation key dongle I was using via USB As for citrix on the mac to a windows environment I've not tried that but I'm guessing here that it wouldn't be a success for a screan reader user Hope this makes sense to folks and it is of some use. Chers, Simon F -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2016 3:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: question about remotely accessing a Citrix VDI? Hi, I'd be interested in this sort of thing as well. for the moment, I've just given up on Citrix. From my Mac, all the initial connection stuff through the browser is fine, links to the various apps and shared items is all great, but as soon as I'm inside the virtual app environment or the shared folder group, all accessibility is lost. Not sure how JFW or other Windows stuff handles this as I don't usually use them. other than to access Active Directory. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 31, 2016, at 08:34, Scott Granados <[email protected]> wrote: 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. 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