Syed Masum Billah
Vikas Ashok
Donald E. Porter
ABSTRACT
Remote desktop technology, the enabler of access to applications hosted on remote hosts, relies primarily on scraping the pixels on the remote screen and redrawing them as a simple bitmap on the client's local screen. Such a technology will simply not work with screen readers since the latter are innately tied to reading text. Since screen readers are locked-in to a specific OS platform, extant solutions that enable remote access with screen readers such as NVDARemote and JAWS Tandem require homogeneity of OS platforms at both the client and remote sites. This demo will present Sinter, a system that eliminates this requirement. With Sinter, a blind Mac user, for example, can now access a remote Windows application with VoiceOver, a scenario heretofore not possible.
- S. M. Billah, D. E. Porter, and I. V. Ramakrishnan. Sinter: Low-bandwidth remote access for the visually-impaired. In Proceedings of the Eleventh European Conference on Computer Systems, pages 27:1--27:16, New York, NY, USA, 2016. ACM. Google Scholar
Digital Library
- Freedom Scientific. Jaws tandem quick start guide. http://www.freedomscientific.com/JAWSHq/JAWSTandemQuickStart. {Online; accessed 11-Jun-2016}.Google Scholar
- NVDA. NVDA Remote brings free remote access to the blind. http://nvdaremote.com/.Google Scholar
Index Terms
- A Platform Agnostic Remote Desktop System for Screen Reading
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