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Re: I love my Amazon Workspace

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Post by jareds »

mgkimsal wrote: post #52
jareds wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any possibility of insuring that Workspaces will be accessible to users of assistive technology? I use a WIndows PC because that's what has the best screen reader support, a quick google search didn't turn anything up about running a screen reader in the workspace and having it's sound piped back to the thin client.

coincidentally, that's what I was doing in march, and... surprisingly, it sort of worked. client had JAWS, and the JAWS installer read itself to me while it was installing - I was rather impressed. Had to reboot, and it never came up after that - assuming it was related, but never figured it out. The NVDA screen reader did work, as well as the windows voice assistant thing itself. both would generate audio in the wor…

The Jaws problem may have been video card drivers. Jaws installs it's own video driver that I have found to not work under Virtualbox unless guest additions are installed. I could see there being something in the Amazon virtualization solution that could cause problems with the driver.

Re: I love my Amazon Workspace

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Post by mgkimsal »

jareds wrote: post #111
mgkimsal wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

coincidentally, that's what I was doing in march, and... surprisingly, it sort of worked. client had JAWS, and the JAWS installer read itself to me while it was installing - I was rather impressed. Had to reboot, and it never came up after that - assuming it was related, but never figured it out. The NVDA screen reader did work, as well as the windows voice assistant thing itself. both would generate audio in the wor…

The Jaws problem may have been video card drivers. Jaws installs it's own video driver that I have found to not work under Virtualbox unless guest additions are installed. I could see there being something in the Amazon virtualization solution that could cause problems with the driver.

I wanted to dig in to a bit further, but the client just reset the whole thing and said "you don't get JAWS now". Project cancelled soon after that - unrelated to JAWS/workspace.

Don't have time now, but hopefully it will be resolved at some point. NVDA was 'good enough' for the testing I was doing, and it was pretty slick to know the audio was streaming and working without any extra configuration. Probably old hat for some folks, but I'd never experienced that before. :)

Re: I love my Amazon Workspace

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Post by udkl »

DTE wrote: post #74

If you are interested in VDI without the complexity that comes with AWS check us out at https://www.paperspace.com (YCW15) a few key differences: - we can stream directly to a web browser without any plugins - you can fire up a new machine in just a few minutes - all of our machines have GPUs that make the experience feel great (we work with architects, engineers, and others that need a fluid desktop experience) - we…

Hey DTE, can you grant me access ? I would sign up immediately.... my oldish laptop is starting to betray me ... I'll be needing the $25 one

youkhilawala@gmail

Re: I love my Amazon Workspace

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Post by nikon »

DTE wrote: post #74

If you are interested in VDI without the complexity that comes with AWS check us out at https://www.paperspace.com (YCW15) a few key differences: - we can stream directly to a web browser without any plugins - you can fire up a new machine in just a few minutes - all of our machines have GPUs that make the experience feel great (we work with architects, engineers, and others that need a fluid desktop experience) - we…

No EU location? Would be keen if you could support that.

Re: I love my Amazon Workspace

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Post by mister_kleen »

Hortinstein wrote: post #107
dman wrote: post #88

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Just tried to sign up but sign ups dont appear to be available.

same...would love to sign up to play around with this

@hortinstein if you sign up for the waitlist, I'll send you an invite asap. Paul Kleen at Paperspace here
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