[Accessibility] conflict free disabled programmer needs

[Eric S. Johansson]

 trying to move away from the difference of opinion between disabled support 
versus free software I offer a couple of relatively low controversy needs and 
solutions that don't involve speech recognition but will make a big impact on users.

ad hoc remote file system access.

since most accessibility software currently assumes you are working on the 
machine you have enabled,  the end-user is forced to go through variety of 
unpleasant gyrations to access/modify data on a remote machine. Some form of an 
impromptu/ad hoc filesystem would be useful. The way I envision it, it would be 
a command the user would run and tunnel back over a port forward via secure 
shell. I'm not sure it's possible to use Samba in this way or maybe some 
modification for NFS server.  A third option might be something like sshd or 
webdav using a small user space Web server.  a fourth option would be some form 
of rapid synchronization every time a file changed on one side or the other.


Easier file copying between systems.

While it's moderately easy to do file copying between systems with command 
lines, it's still a handbreaker. Being able say "list directories" in a terminal 
window, see a list of files and then be able to select one or more and then move 
to another terminal window and "copy those files" which automatically generates 
the right ssh command to do the copy.

Grammar: copy those files [<recursively> | <verbosely>]

a variation of this would be to do ad hoc bidirectional synchronization.

a shell to client-side accessibility UI bridge.

Develop a mechanism in which the user interface client-side code to query remote 
system for contextual information. For example, what files are in a directory so 
that they can be spoken in a way that makes sense. Or in the case above of file 
copying between systems, gather the source and target directories so the proper 
copy command can be constructed

This is also be useful in the application of the interrupting cow UI

just some thoughts based on the kind of experiences I've seen myself and others 
report.