Gregory Nowak wrote: > If I recall correctly, you're doing ssh access via windows and > jaws. If that's so, then that may be your problem. I've never used > jaws, so can't comment there. However, I can say that I try to avoid > ssh clients under windows as much as possible. If using ssh as a > client under gnu/linux, you should indeed have no problems doing > menuconfig, or anything else for that matter. It's so seamless in > fact, that you can easily forget you're not logged in on a physical > console (I.E. sitting in front of a keyboard physically attached to > the machine you're logged in on). That's not the case when using a > windows ssh client, at least it never has been for me. > Hi, I would have to at least mostly agree. I use the Cygwin ssh client without any problems, but it leaves a lot to be desired as far as overall accessibility in anything other than Windows 98. The problem is Windows, not the ssh client. I recommend the Cygwin ssh client if your screen reader gives good command prompt access. The problem I run into is that a GUI environment doesn't do well at handling console apps, specifically GUI screen readers don't do well with command prompts or text-based programs such as the Cygwin ssh client, telnet, etc. I wouldn't quite go so far as to say that access from Linux to another Linux system is seemless, but it's a lot better than going through Windows. I've noticed that the Speakup keyboard echo is slightly less responsive with ssh but I can certainly live with it. With Cygwin, ssh is very slow and I often have to wait a few seconds for what I'm typing to catch up. The standard Linux openssh client doesn't have that problem at all. There was once that I was working on a Linux server from my Linux desktop with ssh. I kept trying commands and couldn't figure out why things weren't working. Basically I forgot that I wasn't on my local desktop. Once I logged off the server, I realized that in fact the program I had been using wasn't on my desktop. My point is that I would agree with Greg in that it's far better than anything you can do in Windows.
