[jawsscripts] Re: Announcement: New JAWS Scripts Available for VMware Player 5
- From: "Andy B." <sonfire11@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 14:44:15 -0500
It seems to be a guest dialog, or boot menu. It isn't a host menu or dialog.
All I get from OCR is either nothing at all, or "-".
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[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Marang
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 12:47 PM
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Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Announcement: New JAWS Scripts Available for
VMware Player 5
Is the boot menu within the guest VM or is it one of the VMware host
software dialogs?
Have you attempted to press F11 to go full screen and activate the
Convenience OCR feature? This is exactly why I started playing with screen
OCR. Freedom Scientific has done well taking my limited efforts I had when
I made a suggestion and provided more than I had imagined.
Press Insert + Space, followed by o, then s to perform OCR on the entire
screen. It will then switch to using the JAWS cursor on the results.
Hopefully, you can arrow and Control + arrow to find the text in the boot
menu. The fantastic part is that if you simulate a mouse click with the
NumPad slash (/) key, it will switch focus to the guest VM and click on that
object!
*Don Marang*
Vinux Package Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org
<http://www.vinuxproject.org/>
On 11/8/2012 8:46 AM, Andy B. wrote:
> Workstation 9 has some problems with Windows 7 and later. From what my
> looking around has come up with, you are prompted with a boot menu in
> the VM, regardless of the OS installed in the VM itself. For this to
> work, the host OS has to be Windows 7 or later. The problem is that as
> blind users, we hav no way of knowing what the boot menu says. This is
> not specific to the installed VM OS, but is provided by VMWare
> workstation depending on what OS it detects in the VM. Therefore, the
> boot options change based on the VM's OS. The other problem is that
> some memory management problems possibly exist. I am not sure because
> I can never get past the boot options when the vm restarts; the boot
> menu only appears on VM restart. When this happens, JAWS at some point
> locks, and the CPU clock ramps to 100% and freezes until you do a hard
> shutdown with the power button. JAWS problem? VMWare memory problem?
> Who knows, but we would need to figure out what causes the boot menu
> to appear and why windows crashes. These problems don't exist in linux
> as the host, so it may have something to do with JAWS. I would need to
> test with NVDA running to see if it is JAWS blocking something. I am only
running from a 30 day trial.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Marang
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 7:58 AM
> To: vinux-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; b-v-m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
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> Subject: [jawsscripts] Announcement: New JAWS Scripts Available for
> VMware Player 5
>
> I am pleased to announce the release of my JAWS Scripts for VMware Player
5!
>
> VMware Player 5.0 is almost 100% accessible without scripts. The
> scripts supplied simply provide additional information, add many
> hotkeys for menus, add hotkeys for power actions like Workstation,
> and allow the menus to be activated and deactivated simply with the Alt
key.
>
> There is a full list of hotkeys available for these scripts, the
> VMware Player 5.0 application, and some helpful hints by pressing JAWSKey
+ F1.
>
> These scripts are available as an installer which will place the files
> in the proper folder. They can be downloaded at:
>
> http:DonaldMarang.org/VMware.php
>
> Sorry, I currently do not own a copy of VMware Workstation, and thus
> can not develop or support similar scripts for Workstation 9. I like
> the features of Workstation, but evidently, to install VMware Tools in
> Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Workstation 9 or Player 5 is required. I can
> not afford the upgrade at the moment, so I am using Player 5. Mostly,
> I miss the Snapshot feature of Workstation.
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