RE: [SEC508] FW: exceed environment

["Jonathan Avila" <jon@bartsite.com>]

Title: exceed environment

Hummingbird has done quite a bit of work on supporting accessibility through MSAA on the Windows side from accessibility hooks in X-Windows applications.  Our company had an opportunity to work with Hummingbird several years ago on this implementation as a prototype for a Federal agency.  I would contact Doug Lee at doug@bartsite.com as he worked on that project and could point you in the right direction.  I know that in the past there were a number of projects such as Mercado that tried to solve this problem. 

 

Jonathan

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From: sec508-admin@trace.wisc.edu [mailto:sec508-admin@trace.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Barrett, Don
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 12:44 PM
To: Sec508 (E-mail)
Subject: [SEC508] FW: exceed environment

I'm forwarding the following message  to see if anyone has a positive solution.

 

Don Barrett

 

 

 Hello,

I have access character-based UNIX environments using the Tera Term
(http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html) telnet program from Microsoft Windows systems for several years.  However, UNIX-based GUI-based applications are increasingly productive, and difficult to compete with.

For their UNIX work, my company is standardizing on Linux Redhat 9, using the KDE desktop.
At the moment, my company does not want individuals running Linux Desktops on their own PC's.  They want to run the KDE desktop on remote servers, and to have people access this environment through the Exceed terminal emulator

(http://connectivity.hummingbird.com/home/connectivity.html?cks=y) program.
My company thinks that Gnome desktop is not secure.  As far as GUI's are concern, this setup does not seem to be accessible.

I have had little luck Accessing Solaris 8 X-Windows applications through Exceed.

I am trying to get a transfer to the Microsoft Windows end of the business.

Questions

1. Has anyone successfully used Exceed with X-Window applications?

2. If I were able to persuade my company to allow me to use a Linux Desktop,
how would I go about setting up an accessible Linux Redhat 9 KDE X-Window
system?  By listening to list-serves, I am aware that most of the
accessibility work has been done for the Gnome desktop.

Regards