[program-l] Re: Mainframe and Natural engineer
- From: "LU OGBE" <oluogbe@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 04:29:02 +0100
David,
Does the display re-configuration improve audio feedback from JAWS, as I am
not a Braille user?
I think there is an option to adjust the graphics and cursor blink rate, but
have not yet tried it. Will give it a go today & let you know how I get on.
Thanks.
Regards,
LU
-----Original Message-----
From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of David Lant
Sent: 17 May 2011 22:24
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] Re: Mainframe and Natural engineer
Hi,
It's well over a decade since I used a mainframe. I used two clients, one
performing better than the other. The less successful was Attachmate. The
one that worked best was a product called Entire Connection, produced by
Software AG who made the Natural/ADABAS language/DBMS. I'm not sure that
either are available any more. I also found that JAWS was not particularly
good at tracking the cursors in either of these products without some
considerable fiddling with things like the cursor size, shape and blink
rate.
firstly, try to avoid Java based clients. They're bad news in accessible
terms and take a disproportionate amount of customisation of both JAWS and
the application to get them to play nicely together. I had endless problems
with HOD (Host on Demand) especially from version 4 onwards and eventually
gave up on it.
As whether the client is a terminal emulator. If it is, then check that it
allows customisation of cursor size, shape and blink rate. Also check that
you can customise the colours displayed by the mainframe. Some emulators
let you override the colours the mainframe sends so that you can track
highlights better.
You could try writing your own JAWS scripts to try and help track highlights
and other screen information. but as many emulators don't render the
mainframe screen as separate items, but rather put all the output into a
single control, it is often difficult to do much fine tuning. Trying to get
the JAWS cursor to locate at particular screen locations is rarely useful,
because most terminal emulators vary the position in which the data is
rendered by many pixels for no very good reason.
Sorry not to be very positive, but terminal emulation is a whole experience
I am now very glad is behind me since I started using JAWS. It was much
easier with Window Bridge.
All the best,
David
David Lant
Applications analyst
MCPD Enterprise Application Development 3.5
MCTS ASP.NET 3.5, ADO.NET 3.5, Windows Communication Foundation 3.5, Windows
Applications 3.5
-----Original Message-----
From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of LU OGBE
Sent: 16 May 2011 09:51 PM
To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [program-l] Mainframe and Natural engineer
Hello,
I have just started a new project at work that requires me to access a
mainframe application and use natural engineer.
I use XP and JAWS 12. However, when I open the mainframe application or
natural engineer, JAWS goes quiet. It does not allow me read anything, even
when I change the cursor.
Please is there anyone here who has worked with either mainframe systems or
natural engineer? How did you use it? Thanks in advance.
Regards,
LU
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