{"id":3084,"date":"2015-07-28T09:52:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T13:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2015-07-29T09:24:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T13:24:57","slug":"nvda-remote-has-landed-72815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3084","title":{"rendered":"NVDA Remote has landed, 7\/28\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>NVDA Remote has landed!<\/h4>\n<p><em>Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Remote access to another computer has been commonplace for years&#8211;that is if a screen reader is not required. In an office environment, this means trouble shooting another machine or system administration duties are impossible if assistive technology is required.<\/p>\n<p>Now there is a simple, reliable, and free solution to this significant accessibility barrier. The fine developers of open-source screen reader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvaccess.org\/\">NVDA <\/a>have coordinated a crowd-funding campaign to develop NVVDA Remote. This add-on to NVDA has now been released and it delivers on its promise.<\/p>\n<p>After obtaining the NVDA Remote package from <a href=\"http:\/\/nvdaremote.com\/\">nvdaremote.com<\/a>, I quickly installed the software and restarted NVDA. A new option under the &#8220;Tools&#8221; menu called &#8220;Remote&#8221;, is now available. The simple directions accompanying the NVDA Remote plug-in had me connected to another computer in just about 3 minutes. I was startled when the synthetic speech on both machines started responding to my keystrokes&#8211;it was just slightly out of sync, which produced a spine-tingling chill. That&#8217;s an undocumented feature.<\/p>\n<p>A few additional features are also available, like the ability to &#8220;push&#8221; the contents of the clipboard to the remote machine or issue a &#8220;Ctrl-Alt-Del&#8221; key sequence remotely. As the code is freely available, I expect many future improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Editors Note: A previous version of this post attributed the development of this product to NVAccess; however, this is an independent project, separate from NVAccess.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3084\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NVDA Remote has landed! Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP Remote access to another computer has been commonplace for years&#8211;that is if a screen reader is not required. In an office environment, this means trouble shooting another machine or system administration duties are impossible if assistive technology is required. Now there is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,36,26,27,18,14,31,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3087,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}