Re: [Accessibility] conflict free disabled programmer needs

[Eric S. Johansson]

 On 7/29/2010 7:02 AM, Jason White wrote:
> Willem van der Walt<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Why not just use sshfs to mount the remote filesystem?
> Or rsync to transfer the files?

In the extremely simple, they may work but neither of these technique easily 
support privilege escalation. For example, I may  need to edit my Apache 
configuration. I don't have root but do have sudo privileges. How do I do it?  I 
can't make use of a terminal session because of accessibility tool limitations.  
I really need to bring the file local and then make sure copy makes it back.

sshfs  may work okay. But I've tried the equivalent on Windows, there have been 
significant delays because of caching and I was not able to raise privilege on 
the far side with sudo. I needed root passwords to be able to login and access 
the file system as root.

rsync does work but I've burned myself way too many times not remembering to put 
the data back. Same with unison. This should be low hassle or invisible.

Again all of these things are far more clumsy and hand breaking they should be. 
It should be possible  to build a framework by which one can discover 
information about the far side and incrementally build up the information 
necessary to execute the command.

> I do agree that the X11 assistive technologies need to become remotely
> available. The accessibility API for Gnome (and its extension to QT) use DBus,
> which as far as I know can't be transported over the network. I think this
> should be addressed at some point, although I doubt that I would use it
> frequently. I spend most of my time at the shell level and in GNU Emacs of
> course, running X only for applications that need it.

On the other hand, I would use it all the time. What ever I use for speech 
recognition should be divorced from where I work as a method of isolating the 
least free component from everything else.  separating the free from the 
nonfree. This separation enabling individual components to provide greater 
functionality would be seen by many disabled programmers/technical types as a 
liberating experience in their life and further reducing the visibility of 
NaturallySpeaking as a stand-alone component as a benefit.