[jawsscripts] Re: VMware Player

  • From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:45:49 +0100

Could someone please give me tips on making the VMware Workstation menu bar 
accessible? For example are there built in functions or scripts I can use to 
tell JAWS that it's a menu bar and that it should behave that way? Please 
advise. Thanks.

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Chris Hallsworth
E-mail: christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
MSN: ch9675@xxxxxxxxxxx
Skype: chrishallsworth7266
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From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:18 AM
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: VMware Player

> Yes that would be nice.  I have not done too much with menus, but I will
> attempt to look into it as time permits.
>
> Don Marang
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 4:57 PM
> Subject: [jawsscripts] VMware Player
>
>
>> Hello all,
>> I'd like to have a go at creating some scripts to make VMware Player more
>> keyboard friendly, particularly when wanting to use the menus. Any
>> starters
>> would be greatly appreciated. At the moment it works fine with JAWS,
>> however
>> you have to use the JAWS cursor to first find either the VMware Player 
>> or,
>> if a virtual machine is running, devices. Once I've found that I just
>> click
>> on it and a standard pull down occurs and JAWS can read the menus and
>> associated dialogue boxes fine. So I would like to enhance the
>> accessibility
>> so that JAWS can quickly locate and click on the appropriate menus, which
>> I
>> think are actually toolbars, according to the tutor message, using
>> keystrokes.
>> Thanks in advance for any starters.
>> --
>> Chris Hallsworth
>> E-mail: christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> MSN: ch9675@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> Skype: chrishallsworth7266
>> Klango: chrishallsworth
>>
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