Hi, Are you using JAWS? on the features page, the mentioned that supports terminal server and remote desktop, then I understand that will be able to redirect the computer audio to the client session.
https://www.freedomscientific.com/products/software/jaws/ El mar, 30 abr 2024 19:13, Florian Beijers <florianbeij...@gmail.com> escribió: > Hi, > > I had a quick browse through the manual but wasn't able to definitively > get an answer to this question. > I am looking into the accessibility of Guacamole-hosted virtual machines. > These are used a lot in various IT-related training platforms (INE, THM, > etc.) and therefore are pretty prevalent in places where people who are > dependent on accessibilityfeatures might find them. > For some context, screen readers (and various other assistive tech) work > directly with the APIs of the OS that hosts them in order to work. They > have practically zero access to screens that bypass, or ignore, these APIs, > which is the case in almost all forms of RDP, VNC, or other mechanisms that > provide a video feed of a remote machine. THis covers Guacamole, through no > fault of anyone. That is just how this stuff works. > What I am wondering about is primarily to what degree Guacamole supports > audio throughput from a remote machine. Because a screen reader on the > local host can't read the remote host, the only recourse is to start a > screen reader on the remote host in order to make the remote machine > accessible to screen reader users, at least up to a point. > I have brought this up with some of the earlier-mentioned providers and > got some pushback, basically expressing uncertainty if Guacamole is even > able to reliably transfer audio from the remote host to the browser window. > So that is essentially my question. > Is this possible? And if so, are there any gotchas one should be aware of? > I'm aware of things like making sure the audio service is running on the > remote host or making sure the remote host has a soundcard configured to > output through, but it there something that needs to be explicitly set up > on the Guacamole end? > > Thanks a lot, > Florian > >
