[GUI-Talk] Question about using VMWare

[Sierra Whittington]

Ugh, readers. Lol! 

I figured out last night that the virtual machines on campus don't support audio output anyway so this should be fun! 
Thanks for your response. 

> On Jan 16, 2019, at 8:02 AM, Curtis Chong via GUI-Talk <gui-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Sierra:
> 
> I am afraid that JAWS will not work in the virtual machine environment.
> There are some scenarios (i.e., Citrix) where you have one version of JAWS
> installed on your computer and another "remote" copy installed on a Citrix
> server. This "remote access" feature comes at a price of $200, but I do not
> believe this will solve your specific issue.
> 
> Speaking technically, the virtual machine window is a huge set of graphics
> which JAWS has absolutely no good way to parse-even with its Convenient OCR
> feature. My advice (I bet some of you could see this coming<smile>) is to
> secure the services of a sighted reader or to find a way to avoid the
> virtual machine environment altogether.
> 
> Cordially,
> 
> Curtis Chong
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GUI-Talk <gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Sierra Whittington
> via GUI-Talk
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 7:13 PM
> To: GUI-Talk at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Sierra Whittington <sierrazee95 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [GUI-Talk] Question about using VMWare
> 
> Hello all! 
> 
> I know not everyone here is IT, but I figured some people might be and this
> is the only place I can think of to ask. 
> 
> Okay, so my A+ class is running virtual machines now, and we use VMWare. All
> I've had access to is the web version, as they don't have JAWS installed on
> any of the classroom computers yet. 
> 
> When I log in, I can't access anything at all! JAWS just reads the title of
> the page, and even when I perform OCR on the screen, it won't allow me to
> navigate to anything. I can't even access my virtual machine. 
> 
> Does anyone have a work around for this, or possibly know if the actual
> VMWare software is more accessible than the web version? 
> 
> I apologize if I sound all over the place, I'm not super familiar with
> virtual machines. 
> 
> Thanks for reading, 
> Sierra
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