Thanks Billy. That kind of mirrors my experiences, I've always found running a remote editor in a terminal window very frustrating, at least when using a Windows screen reader, but wanted to check and see how important
Not sure I understand the issue of using a remote text editor. If by "remote
text editor" you just mean running something like vi on a Linux server that
you have ssh'd to, this is no problem at all for me and, if it were a
problem, I'd be almost powerless to do anything at the technical end of my
job. As long as whatever application you are using as a terminal emulation
software package on your Windows machine does accurate cursor tracking, all
will be fine. As I have said many times on this list, Reflections is by far
the best terminal emulation programme I have ever used in terms of
accessibility and honouring cursor positions with 100% accuracy. I have used
it in my work situation for over 20 years and I would never, ever think of
using anything else.
OK, I use the JAWS cursor to review screen output but I see no issue at all
with this. I have written simple JAWS scripts to allow me to use braille
display keys to switch into JAWS cursor mode when moving up and down the
screen and they work very well for me. With these simple JAWS scripts, it is
an effortless task to switch between JAWS and PC cursor as it is made to be
part of the action performed when you hit the key on your braille display to
go up a line for example. If anyone tells me they don't use braille, I'm
sorry but I would just give up the discussion because it is just crazy to
try to do a technical admin role without braille feedback.
You just can't work sensibly at all if you can't invoke editors on remote
Linux servers if you are trying to do a sys admin role on a remote Linux
server. It would be madness to have to copy files from the Linux server on
to your local PC to edit it.
Regards,
Phil.
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From: Jason White via Blind-sysadmins