Looking for OS X FTP clients that's usable by a blind user

[RMerlin]

Howdy folks,

I have a blind customer who needs remote access to his office NAS during quarantine. Synology's web interface is unusable for blind people, and TeamViewer to his work PC doesn't work properly either with his screen reader. I am considering going FTP for him.

Going with TunnelBlick is not really an option either, due to accessibility limitations in the client.

Anyone knows of an OS X FTP client that's free and also works well with screen readers?

 

[vdemarco]

I think https://panic.com/transmit/
might be the thing they can use. Not sure if its completely accessible, there is a version you can try.

Only thing is that its not free, you can try it though.

 

[RMerlin]

Thanks. I got multiple recommendations for Cyberduck, and was also suggested Forklift 3. I sent these two to my customers who will test them out tonight, I will be doing a follow-up with him tomorrow morning.

 

[Macfreak]

Could also try filezilla, that’s free too, don’t know if it is blind friendly but it works better than transmit is my experience


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[intr0]

@Macfreak I saw this thread and was going to also suggest FileZilla.

 

[RMerlin]

Filezilla is most likely not a native OS X app, so I suspected it wouldn't integrate cleanly with the screen reader. That's why I looked for recomendations about clients known to be native or to integrate well with the screen reader - Cyberduck got multiple recommendations.

The customer is happy with Cyberduck so far. He only asked me for help once, as the connection seemed to have disappeared from his client (I suspect it wasn't added to the address book, so it forgot it when he rebooted his Mac a few days later). We re-added it together, and I made sure it would appear in the address book.

 

[intr0]

It's native for (or used to be...) Linux, OS X & Windows. It's past accessibility issues seem to have been fixed. If Cyberduck works, then Cyberduck by all means. If your customer ever needs a client to use from an iOS / iPadOS device, I highly recommend https://www.skyjos.com/fileexplorer/index.html . I am impressed (as a sighted person) by its functionality and understand that it is fully accessible for the blind. There's a screenshot from it's insides.

 

[jasseb]

Have you tried any of these?: mac.eltima.com/best-ftp-mac

 

[sfx2000]

Cyberduck got multiple recommendations.

Plus one more...

Transmit might be another - https://panic.com/transmit/

 

[sfx2000]

If your customer ever needs a client to use from an iOS / iPadOS device

He was asking for Mac software - if he wanted to know about iPhone/iPad, that would have been part of his query...

 

[sfx2000]

Filezilla is most likely not a native OS X app, so I suspected it wouldn't integrate cleanly with the screen reader. That's why I looked for recomendations about clients known to be native or to integrate well with the screen reader - Cyberduck got multiple recommendations.

it is not... I couldn't imagine trying to help someone configure it over the phone - tried and failed once with one of our manufacturing engineers over in Taiwan (screw it, go download WinSCP, which did work) - very powerful, lots of flexible options, not much hand-holding, one has to _know_ what/how to do things - very much a product of it's age...

you know, Cyberduck is available for Windows, and includes FileManager integration...

Cyberduck | Libre server and cloud storage browser for Mac and Windows with support for FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift, Backblaze B2, Microsoft Azure & OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox

cyberduck.io

Donation-ware, and worth every penny...

 

[RMerlin]

That thread is more than stale. Confinement ended long ago, and this customer is back at the office.