TY - GEN
T1 - A platform agnostic remote desktop system for screen reading
AU - Billah, Syed Masum
AU - Ashok, Vikas
AU - Porter, Donald E.
AU - Ramakrishnan, I. V.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
©2016 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
PY - 2016/10/23
Y1 - 2016/10/23
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1145/2982142.2982151
DO - 10.1145/2982142.2982151
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85006725150
T3 - ASSETS 2016 - Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
SP - 283
EP - 284
BT - ASSETS 2016 - Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2016
Y2 - 24 October 2016 through 26 October 2016
ER -