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<FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Folks,<BR>
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I work with several visually impaired engineers here at Adobe Systems (on ways to make Acrobat PDF files more accessible to the blind, of course). We have an internal Jabber server, which is normally used for work-related IM traffic, and which is also available when offsite (over VPN). But of the known IM clients, the only one which is accessible to blind users (via screen reader software, e.g., JAWS on Windows) is AIM.<BR>
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One solution for us to communicate might be to use AOL IM accounts. But this exposes work-related traffic to the open Internet. Therefore, I’d like to use OTR to encrypt the AIM traffic to and from the AIM server. <BR>
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Additional complications:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><UL><LI><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I’m typically running Adium on a Mac at my end which shouldn’t be an issue for OTR and which allows me to talk to people on the internal Jabber server, as well as AOL IM, simultaneously.
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><LI><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Both I and the blind user may be remote, i.e., connected via VPN, which may complicate the proxy configuration.<BR>
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My questions:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><OL><LI><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Is there a Jabber client which is “accessible” (i.e., usable via a screen reader)? If so, this would be the simplest solution.
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><LI><FONT SIZE="4"><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>If not, and we have to use AIM, what’s the appropriate OTR setup? Something like:<BR>
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<blind user>---<JAWS on a Windows machine, running AIM>---<OTR/SOCKS proxy>---<VPN>---<local net connection>---.....<BR>
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{Internet}...----<AIM server>---...{Internet}...<local net connection>---<VPN>---<Mac, running Adium with OTR>---<me><BR>
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Any advice would be appreciated,<BR>
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Mike Wirth<BR>
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