Re: freedom box and jfw
- From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 18:38:05 -0700
Hi Gery,
The reason FS and GW can't currently provide the same level of remote access as
Serotek has to do with the fact that Serotek does not rely on video intercept
or Mirror Driver technology. There are two Serotek remote access products, RAM
and RIM. RAM is indeed intended for use to remotely access servers, but RIM is
an incident manager, which means a blind tech could use it to remotely access a
machine owned by a sighted person with no previously installed screen reader.
Installation is through a link and ActiveX browser control for the end user.
I hope this technology doesn't get killed off by Freedom Scientific's lawsuit.
I hope you all will sign the petition soon.
Darrell Shandrow - Accessibility Evangelist
Visit http://www.SaveSerotek.org and ask Freedom Scientific to stop suing!
Information should be accessible to us without need of translation by another
person.
Blind Access Journal blog and podcast: http://www.blindaccessjournal.com
Check out high quality telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i
----- Original Message -----
From: Gery Gaubert
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 6:28 PM
Subject: freedom box and jfw
If you all think prices for jaws is high, check out the prices to get the
freedom box setup. I support about 300 end users and their product allows you
to control computers much in the same way that pc any where or vnc does. For
the setup it would cost me about $25 thousand that's right, no typo there.
While the remote access provided by freedom scientific is great it has
limitations. For the life of me I can't figure out why fs and even gw micro
can't offer blind users something to access other computers that is based on
either vnc or pc anywhere. Vnc and pc anywhere are the 2 most used programs by
sighted computer users to remotely control servers and pc's. I say I don't
know why but after thinking about it really do know. Money and ignorance
probably play a large part of the reason.
Gery Gaubert
St. Charles Sheriff's Office Helpdesk Coordinator
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