Re: NVDA with mainframe terminal emulators
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Chris Mullins
Hi I’ve not worked on a mainframe for about 10 years but programmed for around 25 years, originally using IRMA, then Attachmate Extra and finally Zephyr Passport, all were IBM 3270 emulators. I used Jaws at that time and all were reasonably accessible once the cursor shape and blink rate had been adjusted such that Jaws could recognise it. I don’t know if emulators are more graphical these days, which would make the job much more difficult but I wish you the best of luck.
Cheers Chris From: Luke Robinett
Sent: 06 February 2021 06:33 To: nvda@nvda.groups.io Subject: Re: [nvda] NVDA with mainframe terminal emulators
We also use Rumba but to be honest I almost never have to interact with it directly. On the few occasions I have attempted it, I found NVDA to be almost useless. As far as I understand, these emulator programs aren’t really displaying text. It’s more like a graphical window pretending to be text. Not sure how NVDA could tackle that other than optical character recognition which wouldn’t be ideal for this purpose. Hope you figure something out. Let us know.
Luke
> On Feb 4, 2021, at 3:38 PM, Eric Brinkman <eric.brinkman1@...> wrote: > > We use Rumba at my company. > > Eric > >> On 2/4/21, David Mehler <dave.mehler@...> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Which program(s) do you use or have you used in the past? >> >> Thanks. >> Dave. >> >> >>> On 2/4/21, Eric Brinkman <eric.brinkman1@...> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I work as a mainframe programmer and have been using Jaws with Glen >>> Sepke's terminal scripts to use the terminal emulator at my company. >>> Have any of you found a way to get NVDA to work well with terminal >>> emulation programs? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Eric >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > >
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