Hello
Please do not discuss your Winjows issues in this group. The
list policy clearly states that this discusssion is prohibited.
The discussion of the virtual machine itself, that is, the
discussion of how to configure the virtual machine on the OS X
side of is acceptable. But the discussion of how to configure
the guest system is off topic.
Actually, I encourage members to make use of the list archives.
these issues have been discussed repeatedly already and you'd be
doing us all a favour by utilising this resourse.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com
To: OS X & iOS Accessibility <mac-access@mac-access.net
Date sent: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:22:54 -0500
Subject: Re: help with setting up vm ware?
Mathew, I use Jaws in windows7 in VMWare under mountain lion, and
will probably not be upgrading anytime soon either. One thing
you'll need to be aware of when installing and using Jaws is the
need to modify some setting to have access to an insert key, or a
caps lock key for jaws in laptop keyboard mode. If you have a
full-sized apple keyboard, this is not a problem because that
keyboard has an insert key, and you can run jaws in PC keyboard
mode. The caps lock is unavailable because apple doesn't treat
it like a key press but handles it differently, and it doesn't
get passed along to windows - making it unavailable as a jaws
modifier key.
What I've done, and what a lot of people do, is to use a freeware
windows program called sharp keys to assign the grave accent key
to act as a caps lock key, and then set jaws to run in laptop
keyboard mode with the caps lock (now the grave accent key) as
the jaws modifier key.
.
another way, probably the better way, is to set up VMWare to
substitute an insert key for the caps lock key, so that when you
press capslock, vmware sends an insert key to windows.
I've forgotten how that's done in vmware now, but it's fairly
simple. probably a lot simpler than the sharp keys method and
the third option that I won't mention here now.
The only drawback to the last method is that you lose one Jaws
command, the command is insert+J, which has a conflict that
causes it to be unusable. However, pressing control left arrow
does the same thing as insert + j and so it doesn't really
matter.
Sorry I can't give accurate directions on how to set up an insert
key from within vmware, I'm sure someone here will tell you if
you ask.
.
On Nov 20, 2013, at 10:21 PM, Matthew Carello
<mcarell...@comcast.net> wrote:
Hello all. I set up vmware 6.0 today on a macbook air. All
seemed to go ok. Does anyone have any tips on what I should et
in it to make it work better? I have been choosing single window
mode and full window. I can get narrator to start up but what
would be better to use jaws or NVDA? I would rather use jaws if
possible because I know it better. Is there any good tutorials
out there? Thanks for any help.
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