NVDA might fly since it doesn't use proprietary drivers. You would have to get sound feedback from the host machine.
best, Erik Burggraaf Currently on ebony promos: Ebony consulting on android accessibility, New drive imaging services available. To read more and subscribe, visit http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/mailman/listinfo/ebony-promos_erik-burggraaf.com Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2012-03-04, at 8:22 PM, Reinhard Stebner wrote: > There is just one problem, Assistive Technology such as screen readers. I am > not going to be able to access any of this stuff because I am unable to run a > screen reader on it. > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf OfCheree Heppe > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 1:32 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: hybrid computing > > Cheree Heppe here: > > This sounds as if it may solve a number of problems. See article below. > > > N Y Times Tech news for the week of Thursday 2/23/2012 > Windows on the iPad, and Speedy > > By [7]DAVID POGUE > > You're probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed > Internet. I'm paying $5 a month, and my connection is 1,000 times > faster. > > Your [8]iPad can't play Flash videos on the Web. Mine can. > > Your copy of Windows needs constant updating and patching and > protection against viruses and spyware. Mine is always clean and always > up-to-date. > > No, I'm not some kind of smug techno-elitist; you can have all of that, > too. All you have to do is sign up for a radical iPad service called > OnLive Desktop Plus. > > It's a tiny app -- about 5 megabytes. When you open it, you see a > standard Windows 7 desktop, right there on your iPad. The full, latest > versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader > are set up and ready to use -- no installation, no serial numbers, no > pop-up balloons nagging you to update this or that. It may be the least > annoying version of Windows you've ever used. > > That's pretty impressive -- but not as impressive as what's going on > behind the scenes. The PC that's driving your iPad Windows experience > is, in fact, a "farm" of computers at one of three data centers > thousands of miles away. Every time you tap the screen, scroll a list > or type on the on-screen keyboard, you're sending signals to those > distant computers. The screen image is blasted back to your iPad with > astonishingly little lag. > > There's an insane amount of technology behind this stunt -- 10 years in > the making, according to the company's founder. (He's a veteran of > Apple's original QuickTime team and Microsoft's WebTV and Xbox teams.) > OnLive Desktop builds on the company's original business, a service > that lets gamers play high-horsepower video games on Macs or > low-powered Windows computers like netbooks. > > The free version of the OnLive Desktop service arrived in January. It > gives you Word, Excel and PowerPoint, a few basic Windows apps (like > Paint, Media Player, Notepad and Calculator), and 2 gigabytes of > storage. > > Plenty of apps give you stripped-down versions of Office on the iPad. > But OnLive Desktop gives you the complete Windows Office suite. In > Word, you can do fancy stuff like tracking changes and high-end > typography. In PowerPoint, you can make slide shows that the iPad > projects with all of the cross fades, zooms and animations intact. > > Thanks to Microsoft's own Touch Pack add-on, all of this works with > touch-screen gestures. You can pinch and spread two fingers to zoom in > and out of your Office documents. You can use Windows' impressive > handwriting recognition to enter text (although a Bluetooth keyboard > works better). You can flick to scroll through a list. > > Instead of clicking the mouse on things, you can simply tap, although a > stylus works better than a fingertip; many of the Windows controls are > too tiny for a finger to tap precisely. (On a real Windows PC, you > could open the Control Panel to enlarge the controls for touch use -- > but OnLive's simulated PC is lacking the Control Panel, which is one of > its few downsides.) > > OnLive Desktop is seamless and fairly amazing. And fast; on what other > PC does Word open in one second? > > But the only way to get files onto and off OnLive Desktop is using a > Documents folder on the desktop. To access it, you have to visit > OnLive's Web site on your actual PC. > > The news today is the new service, called OnLive Desktop Plus. It's not > free -- it costs $5 a month -- but it adds Adobe Reader, Internet > Explorer and a 1-gigabit-a-second Internet connection. > > That's not a typo. And "1-gigabit Internet" means the fastest > connection you've ever used in your life -- on your iPad. It means > speeds 500 or 1,000 times as fast as what you probably get at home. It > means downloading a 20-megabyte file before your finger lifts from the > glass. > > You get the same speed in both directions. You can upload a 30-megabyte > file in one second. > > And remember, you're using a state-of-the-art Windows computer, so you > can play any kind of video you might encounter online. OnLive Desktop > Plus turns the iPad from a tablet that can't play Flash videos at all > -- into the smoothest Flash player you've ever used. And yes, that > includes watching free TV at Hulu.com, which you can't otherwise do on > the iPad. > > The Plus version's Internet connection makes a world of difference. Now > you can use DropBox to get files onto and off your iPad from other > gadgets, like Macs and PCs. (That, the company says, is why the Plus > service still offers only 2 gigabytes of storage for your files; it > figures you've now got the whole Internet as your storage bin.) You can > get to your Gmail, Yahoo mail, corporate Exchange mail and other online > accounts -- with ridiculously quick response. > > Now, you might be wondering: What good is a 1-gigabit connection on > OnLive's end, if the far slower connection on my end is the bottleneck? > > The secret is that OnLive isn't sending you all of the data from your > Web browsing session. It's sending you only a video stream the size of > your iPad screen. For example, if you're playing a hi-def video, OnLive > pares down the data to just what your iPad can show. If you scroll a > video off the screen, OnLive doesn't bother sending you its data. And > so on. > > OnLive (free) and OnLive Plus ($5 a month) are both brilliantly > executed steps forward into the long-promised world of "thin client" > computing, in which we can use cheap, low-powered computers to run > programs that live online. But the company's next plans are even more > exciting. > > For example, the company intends to develop a third service, called > OnLive Pro ($10 a month), that will let you run any Windows programs > you want. Photoshop, Firefox, Autodesk, games -- whatever. > > The company still isn't sure how that will work; somehow, you'll have > to prove that you actually own the software you're running on its > servers. But what a day that will be, when you can run any Windows > program on earth on your iPad. > > And not just on your iPad. The company is also working on bringing > OnLive to Android tablets, iPhones and [9]iPod Touches, Macs and PCs, > and even to TV sets. (That last trick would require a small set-top > box.) > > Suddenly Mac fans will have the full world of Windows and all of its > programs -- without the speed and memory penalties of programs like > Parallels and VMWare. And nobody will have to worry about viruses, > spyware or software updates; OnLive's virtual PCs are always pristine. > > This is all so crazy cool, it seems almost ungrateful to point out the > flaws -- but here goes. > > The delay between finger touch and on-screen response is usually tiny. > But when you paint or use the handwriting recognition, the lag is > painful. > > Since you're actually viewing a video stream, you sometimes see typical > video stream glitches like low-resolution text blocks that quickly > clear up. > > OnLive says that its service works great over 4G cellular connections > (like the one provided by an LTE MiFi) -- but 3G connections and feeble > hotel Wi-Fi hot spots are too slow to be satisfying. OnLive wants at > least a 2-megabits-a-second connection on your end. > > Finally, you have to sign into OnLive every time you want to use it, > even if you've just flicked away to another iPad app. (OnLive says > it'll fix that.) > > Even so, if ever there were a poster child for the potential of cloud > computing, OnLive is it. This is jaw-dropping, extremely polished > technology. It opens up a universe of software and horsepower that live > far beyond the iPad's wildest dreams -- with no more effort on your > part than a few taps on glass. > > E-mail: po...@nytimes.com > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email > tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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