I have talked to the cheif technical officer at VMWare, Steve Herrod. Mr.
Herrod and VMWare seem very interested in accessibility. I hope and believe
that accessibility problems are mostly the result of oversights and lack of
knowledge on their part.
I hope that people who are interested in this problem would join with me in
the International Association of Visually Impaired Technologists in
addressing this issue. We plan to try to work with companies to get them to
design accessibility into their products. We are currently trying to form a
committee to work on this. If you are interested in being on this committee,
please contact me. The committee hasn't been formed yet so I can't say what
it will do. That would be up to the committee itself. But I would assume it
would do something like develop a set of suggestions for actions a company
can take to make it easier for them to design accessibility into their
products. Some of these suggestions might be having blind beta testers and
having someone in the company responsible for reviewing accessibility.
You can contact me at john@iavit.org. Thanks.
VMWare,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Shugart"
To: "Blind sysadmins list"
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] VMWare View administrator
It couldn't hurt, but I wouldn't hold your breath for a response. My guess
is Freedom has never heard of VMWare, and they have other higher priorities,
for better or worse. I'd say your best bet is to continue pushing VMWare,
if they went to Freedom it might be different. Or is the person to push
here Adobe, its their controls afterall. Its actually very difficult to say
who sometimes, and quite frankly the habbit of companies to farm the blame
off to someone else is really, well, frustrating.
Ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of
Darragh OHeiligh
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 2:25 AM
To: Blind sysadmins list
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] VMWare View administrator
I received a response from the VMWare support department this morning.
They sent me a generic document from the Freedomscientific website for
preparing Windows XP for Jaws 4.1. It was a slightly pointless
instruction but I appreciate their effert.
I have replied again with a number of proposed solutions.
Firstly they could provide a way of disabling the flash control on a per
session basis.
Alternatively they could fix the flash control so that focus is not
restricted to it.
Would you think there is any point reporting this to Freedom Scientific?
Regards
Darragh Ó Héiligh
System administration
Fujitsu
Offices of the Houses of the Oireachtas,
Fredrick Building,
South Fredrick Street,
Dublin2
Telephone: +353 (1) 618 3559
Email: darragh.oheiligh@oireachtas.ie
Internet: http://www.oireachtas.ie
From: Ryan Shugart
To: Blind sysadmins list
Date: 11/02/2011 00:20
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] VMWare View administrator
Sent by: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
Andrew:
This isn't the main interface, VMWare View is the VDI
product. The VIC itself is still accessible, well as accessible as ever,
in 4.1.
Ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [
mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of
Andrew Hodgson
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 3:01 PM
To: Blind sysadmins list
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] VMWare View administrator
Hi,
Oh crap. Is that the main Vmware console in VCentre? We have a couple of
ESX 3.5 hosts I was going to upgrade to ESXI 4.1 in the near future (I am
very new to VmWare), what is the latest version that doesn't have the
changed interface? On the other hand, HyperV is looking ever more
attractive.
Andrew.
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [
mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of
Darragh OHeiligh
Sent: 10 February 2011 15:16
To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] VMWare View administrator
Good afternoon,
I was horrified and very annoyed to find that after updating to the latest
version of VMWare View, the administrative site is flash based and I am
unable to read everything that I need to access.
What the hell are these companies playing at!
Is it seriously too much to ask that they create interfaces that are
accessible? Or at the very least not inaccessible? I don't mind having to
work at things but I'm getting very tired of companies unknowingly putting
obsticles in the way. Especially when I have a job to do.
Have any of you come across this in the latest version of the ESX related
tools?
Before I do any more upgrading of our environment do you know if there is
anything else I need to look out for?
I'm becoming a very intollerent person when it comes to these updates. Why
and howe they made what was a reasonably nice interface to navigate around
a completely inaccessible flash based tragity I just cant understand.
Regards
Darragh Ó Héiligh
System administration
Fujitsu
Offices of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Fredrick Building, South Fredrick
Street,
Dublin2
Telephone: +353 (1) 618 3559
Email: darragh.oheiligh@oireachtas.ie
Internet: http://www.oireachtas.ie
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