Re: Question: the quickest way to use the NVDA screen reader on my Mac

2013-11-27 Thread Parham Doustdar
Hi all, Thanks a lot for the informative answers. On Nov 27, 2013, at 5:46 PM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: > Agree. fusion is your only option, and it’s quite good, and very very > accessible. and the clipboards are interchangeable, meaning you can copy > your text to the clip board from one os t

Re: Question: the quickest way to use the NVDA screen reader on my Mac

2013-11-27 Thread Chris Johnson
I've used NVDA with Virtualbox (free) in the past. I recall it required some key remapping. If I get a chance, I'll try it out again today. Chris Johnson Assistive Technology Specialist expressABLE Loveland, CO ch...@eable.org On 11/27/13, 7:16 AM, Sarah k Alawami wrote: Agree. fusion is y

Re: Question: the quickest way to use the NVDA screen reader on my Mac

2013-11-27 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Agree. fusion is your only option, and it’s quite good, and very very accessible. and the clipboards are interchangeable, meaning you can copy your text to the clip board from one os to another with out loosing changes. Take care. On Nov 27, 2013, at 3:36 AM, Chris H wrote: > True. Fusion

Re: Question: the quickest way to use the NVDA screen reader on my Mac

2013-11-27 Thread Chris H
True. Fusion is your only option then. E-mail Facebook and iMessage christopher...@gmail.com On 27/11/2013 09:38, Parham Doustdar wrote: Hi Chris, What I mean by “quickest” is the quickest to switch to. If I use Bootcamp, I’d have to reboot, read the text, reboot again, and re-launch the apps

RE: Question: the quickest way to use the NVDA screen reader on my Mac

2013-11-27 Thread David Griffith
...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Parham Doustdar Sent: 27 November 2013 09:38 To: OS X & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Question: the quickest way to use the NVDA screen reader on my Mac Hi Chris, What I mean by "quickest" is the quickest to switch to. If I use Bootcamp, I'd have

Re: Question: the quickest way to use the NVDA screen reader on my Mac

2013-11-27 Thread Parham Doustdar
Hi Chris, What I mean by “quickest” is the quickest to switch to. If I use Bootcamp, I’d have to reboot, read the text, reboot again, and re-launch the apps I had open before rebooting. With a VM, at least I wouldn’t lose open applications and wouldn’t have to reboot twice. :) On Nov 27, 2013,

Re: Question: the quickest way to use the NVDA screen reader on my Mac

2013-11-27 Thread Chris H
No such animal exists. Because virtual machines run entirely under software it all depends on how fast your ram and processor is to determine how fast a virtual machine can run. You are better off looking into Bootcamp. Then that way you can run the other operating system natively without waiti

Question: the quickest way to use the NVDA screen reader on my Mac

2013-11-27 Thread Parham Doustdar
Hi all, The NVDA screen reader reads Farsi text. Since I need to read Farsi text now and then, I”m looking for the quickest way to run NVDA under Mac. I hear that Parallel Desktops allows running Windows applications under Mac, but I feel (based on previous experience using Wine) that this will