Thanks Mike and Nick: Am I therefore correct in concluding?
If JAWS runs correctly in an RDP environment (which presumably it does), Guac should be able to deliver the audio. Thank you, Antony ᐧ On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Mike Jumper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Nick Couchman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Nick Couchman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Antony Awaida <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi everyone: > >>> > >>> Has anyone tried to run a screen reader such as JAWS over Guacamole? if > >>> so do you have a recipe for that? > >>> > >>> Thanks! > >>> > >> > >> What protocol are you interested in? I'm not familiar with screen > >> readers, including JAWS, but my guess is that this will partially > depend on > >> the screen reader's ability to parse images for text. In the case of > VNC > >> and RDP when used through Guacamole, the output to the screen is an > image > >> and does not have a direct text representation. Telnet and SSH > protocols in > >> Guacamole should be parsed out as text in the browser (which is > demonstrated > >> by the ability to select letters/words/lines of text), so those will > >> probably work. > >> > > Actually, for all protocols, there is no text once things reach the > client side. Everything is graphical. > > > > > ...but, apparently JAWS includes OCR support, so perhaps it will work > fine > > with Guacamole?! > > > > If running the screen reader within the remote desktop is an option, > that should work well for the protocols where Guacamole provides audio > support (VNC and RDP). Otherwise, yep, everything is part of a dynamic > image and there is nothing for the reader to read. > > - Mike > -- Antony Awaida CEO www.apporto.com
