yes, I am very excited about this! this will be a serious game changer. have already committed to putting money in when the compaign starts as this has the potential to revolutionize my work life. Brian. Contact me on skype: brian.moore follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bmoore123 On 17/12/2014 3:59 AM, Darragh Ó Héiligh wrote:
Ben and Catherine,
I have been involved in a very small way with this.
Here are a few points.
1. It's not that there are no plans to support video, it's that this is meant to work in combination with Teamviewer, remote desktop, VNC, PC anywhere, PC over IP or any other network based remote access system you need to use. Imagine this. Your employer decides tomorrow to stop using Teamviewer and insteads moves to go to meeting or even Bomgar. You don't need to worry about it. NVDA compressed without all the language files and synthesizers is 14MB. You connect to the remote PC, you download your archive and you startworking. It doesn't need to be installed and by selecting no synthesizer you have no speech on the remote side.
2. The UI isn't important at all. The server runs where ever you want. I have it running on one of my work servers. I could have had it running on my laptop but because I'm in different offices, I didn't want to have to open firewall ports everywhere. On the remote side, when all goes well, the user never sees a UI at all. On the local side, you see a simple dialogue asking you where you want to connect and what key to use.
3. Your sighted colleagues will never need to see this so the UI isn't important to them either.
4. a virtual channel over RDP isn't necessary once the server your connecting to has access to either your computer or the relay server over the designated port. This is completely protocol independent. Also, because it's only sending synthesizer strings it's lightening fast. Even when connecting from Ireland to the US or Canada.
This is absolutely revolutionary. I can't wait until they raise the money required to finish this because already it's a game changer for me.
Here's what I did to get this working. 1. Configured a pen drive version of NVDA. 2. Removed the synthesizer and language files excluding the English language. 3. Disabled speech. 4. Disabled the start up sound. 5. Disabled the check for updates. 6. Removed the uninstall executable. 7. Installed the NVDA add on. 8. Configured the add on to connect to my relay server when NVDA starts. 9. Zipped up the NVDA archive and put it on a server accessible by HTTP. 10. Put the server software onto a remote system and started it. 11. Natted the port to this server. 12. Installed the add on for my locally installed version of NVDA.
All in all this took about 20 minutes and my first test was from Ireland to Malta.
If you aren't smiling and thinking of doing some kind of happy dance at this point, there's something wrong with you.
Regards
Darragh
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ben Mustill-Rose Sent: 16 December 2014 23:48 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NVDA will soon support remote access
It sounds like it will be a good solution for blind on blind support so to speak & a blind person supporting a sighted friend. ISTM that corporations who also have sighted administrators will still have to deploy another remote access solution on top of this one though as it doesn't support video & I got the impression that they're not intending to make it into a fully featured remote administration tool. Never the less, I'll be contributing to their campain as it's noticeabley better than TeamViewer & NVDA which is what I'm having to use for people at the moment.
Cheers, Ben.
On 12/16/14, Katherine Moss <Katherine.Moss@gordon.edu> wrote:
Now that's awesome? not to mention, best programmers out there to do the job; everything I've purchased from Christopher, and I've nearly bought all of his stuff; I intend to finish those purchases off soon; I can't tell you how much productivity and joy I've gotten out of them. I use QRead and Chicken Nugget on the daily. If those are good, then I can only imagine what this will do; hopefully it will be good for both client OS and server OS access. Now all we need is a virtual channel over RDP.
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Ben Mustill-Rose Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:38 PM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] NVDA will soon support remote access
Hi all,
Taken from http://www.nvdaremote.com
NVDA Remote Access Preview Welcome to NVDA Remote Access NVDA Remote access will be a free add-on to NVDA which allows a user to remotely control another machine. It does its part to reverse the trend of blind unemployment by creating more job opportunities for tech entrepreneurs, system administrators, rehabilitation specialists, and educators. Why do we need Remote Access? NVDA Remote Access will give blind users the freedom to enjoy a number of career and educational options. Blind Technical Support Professionals and amateurs alike can Use NVDA Remote access to connect to their clients computers remotely in real time and walk them through multi-step procedures or teach them new applications, techniques and workflows. Educators can hear what their students are doing on their computers and vice versa, providing a perfect environment for hands-on training from afar. Whether in an office down the hall or a datacenter on the other side of the globe, NVDA Remote access will provide powerful, minimal latency access to the Windows desktop via speech. Audio Demonstration Listen to a podcast where we demonstrate and discuss the current prototype of NVDA Remote Access. http://www.cucat.org/class_notes/CaviCasts/2014/20141213_nvda_remote.m p3 Who are we? Tyler Spivey and Christopher Toth, creators of popular accessible software such as 3MT Reader , QRead , Chicken Nugget , MushReader , and more.
Cheers, Ben.
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