Accessability in Edubuntu

[Jude DaShiell]

I did the research, reason is we now have citrix where I work and this was 
work connected.  If I were in the least degree wrong given the 
distribution my research results was given I'm sure my supervisor would 
have told me long ago.



On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Steve Lee wrote:

> On 02/10/2007, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at shellworld.net> wrote:
>> I can tell you exactly how well orca will work in a thin client
>> environment and I can explain why.  Orca requires a thick client to work
>> at all, and it requires broad band access.  Without those two components
>> in place it will not work at all.
>
> I can't comment on Orca so I'll just make a couple of general points
> as thin clients need to support AT as well. In the UK education
> section (schoolforge.org.uk) thin client is one of the key advantages
> of FOSS that can be promoted (saving cash, ease admin). I have limited
> knowledge but believe the situation should not be as bad as you
> present. I just needs some concentrated effort.
>
> * X, (the linux display system) is naturally thin client. LTSP just
> gets it going and in usual desktop situations the display happens to
> be on the same box as the client software. Thus most programs will
> 'just work' thin client as far as display and common input is
> concerned unless they have worked around it somehow. The Accessibility
> APIs also work in this distributed model
> * I understand sound now works with LTSP.
> * As far as performance/bandwidth is concerned yes thin client pushes
> the load onto infrastructure and servers. The X protocol is pretty
> good and optimisations are available (NX, ndiyo). The graphics
> packages that many programs and widget sets use work hard to reduce
> bandwidth too (e.g cairo).
>
> www.schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Assistive_Technology_with_Terminal_Servers
>
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