[nfb-talk] system access to go

[James Aldrich]

What is their web site again?

Jim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] system access to go


Hi,

If you press insert+f when using system access, you'll see the remote access
feature.

Josh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] system access to go


> Ray,
>
> When I accessed the page, I was asked if I wanted to "run" the file.  This
> says to me that a program is being run instead of downloaded and run which
> makes me
> think it is being run from a web site rather than, for example, a pen
> drive.  this means you could use it from any computer with internet access
> without having it with
> you, but I don't understand what you are saying about it providing access
> to a remote computer.  My understanding is that they have a product that
> does that, but I
> don't see how this product would do that.  Would you explain that?
>
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:36:28 -0500, Ray Foret Jr. wrote:
>
>>I should like to point out something.  System Access to go is not, in the
>>strictest of terms, a "screen reader".  It does not ever download itself
>>to
>>your computer, from my understanding.  The voice you hear emanates from
>>the
>>web pages themselves.  I've got a trial account, and so far, it seems
>>pretty
>>cool.  One use I can imagine this being put to is this.
>
>>    Let's say a blind customer calls tech support.  Now, let's say it's FS
>>tech support.  With something such as System access to go, the tech
>>support
>>representative could literally gain access to a customer's machine and
>>thereby correct what ever the problem is.  This might be a useful tool for
>>blind people who want to work as tech support representatives too.  Since
>>you can't always rely on what sighted people tell you about what is going
>>on
>>with their computers, System Access could let the blind tech support
>>representative see just exactly what really is going on with that poor
>>brain
>>impaired sighted person's machine and actually fix it.  Now, it's not yet
>>where it really should be.  I see as yet no virtual mouse curser of any
>>sort, which you need with some programs.  Control is, for the most part,
>>fairly quick; but, with SAPI voices, it's more sluggish.  Still and all,
>>it's got quite a fair bit of potential to it.
>
>>Sincerely yours,
>>The Constantly Barefooted,
>>Ray
>>Home phone and fax:
>>(985)853-0139
>>E-mail:
>>rforetjr at bellsouth.net
>>Skype Name:
>>barefootedray
>>Blog:
>>www.raysworld.blogs.com
>>Podcast .rss Feed:
>>http://feeds.feedburner.com/worldofray
>
>>God bless President George W. Bush!
>>God bless our troops!
>>and God bless America
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
>>To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:06 AM
>>Subject: [nfb-talk] system access to go
>
>
>>Hi,
>
>>I just heard about a new technology in public beta called system access to
>>go. check it out at www.satogo.com . It's in public beta and it's really
>>cool. It's a screen reader that is downloaded to your computer and run
>>remotely. It uses the DecTalk voice. It's currently free, but I think
>>there
>>will be an anual fee at some point. So with system access to go any
>>computer
>>that runs windows 2000 or xp and hopefully in the future vista, you can
>>just
>>go to this website and have a screen reader, but nothing is installed
>>because it is used remotely.
>
>>Josh
>
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