[NFBCS] viewing the contents pane in Autopsy by slooth Kit using NVDA and Windows 10

[Littlefield, Tyler]

I think 4 is probably fine, maybe 6 if you really need. The issue is 
less memory and more CPU. Recommend giving at least a couple cores 
depending on how many virtual cores your host system has.


HTH,



On 1/31/2022 2:32 PM, Amelia Pellicciotti via NFBCS wrote:
> correction Tyler, I forgot to ask what specs you recommend I give the VM. Right now the guest has 4 GB of RAM and 70 gigs of hard drive space.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jan 30, 2022, at 7:08 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Could you try the task with Jaws, even running in demo mode?  I'm not sure
>> it would pass the control key through either, but it might, and you say
>> you're more familiar with Jaws than with NVDA.
>> I use NVDA some myself, but I use Jaws for work.  It seems to handle some
>> tricky programs better, or I know  better how to tweak it to handle them
>> better, and, if I get stuck, I can call Tech Support.  Sometimes they know
>> the answer, and sometimes not, but it's always worth a shot.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
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>> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2022 3:31 PM
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>> Cc: Amelia Pellicciotti
>> Subject: [NFBCS] viewing the contents pane in Autopsy by slooth Kit using
>> NVDA and Windows 10
>>
>> good day everyone,
>> I am taking a computer forensics course this semester, which requires
>> students to extract data from an image using autopsy by slooth kit.
>> The student then has to tag certain documents recovered and generate a
>> case report. I am performing these tasks with autopsy 4.3.0 on a
>> windows 10 Virtual Machine, using the latest version of NVDA. This
>> program is not very accessible, but I was able to muddle my way
>> through this far using deductive reasoning and object navigation. I
>> have named my case and selected my data source, and am now in the
>> directory tree view, which allows the investigator to filter by file
>> extention. With NVDA, I need to get to the result viewer pane in the
>> upper right-hand portion of the screen, in order to select the first
>> office document to view. NVDA announces a tutoring message directing
>> me to press control in order to switch panes. Obviously this does not
>> work, since the control key is passed to NVDA first in order to mute
>> speech. I then tried NVDA key plus F2 in order to pass the control key
>> through. When I press control once and release, and then tab promptly
>> after, NVDA speaks nothing.
>> Has anyone successfully used Autopsy by slooth kit on windows 10 using
>> NVDA? (I am a novice to NVDA as compared with JAWS, so I thought there
>> is something else I am doing wrong or could try.) If the software will
>> not be much more useful to me further, could you suggest a way to
>> adapt this assignment? My instructor would like for us to perform this
>> task in windows, since the majority of computer crimes occur on
>> windows PC's. I do not use screen magnification, and instead am
>> completely blind using exclusively non visual techniques. I have just
>> included details here about the location of the panes here for trouble
>> shooting and informational purposes.
>>
>> Thank you for all of your suggestions and advice
>> Respectfully, amelia
>>
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