[NFBCS] VMWare on Mac (Fusion)

[maurice mines]

Good morning I normally turn off jaws when I'm using a virtual machine. 
This helps significantly. This is especially critical for me but not for 
most people on this list the reason why it is especially critical for me 
is because I use dictation software because of the additional disability.


I would say that one should bear this in mind and in my case I'm letting 
this on an Intel-based Mac. And I'm using the current version of jobs 
23. And I am using VMware fusion the current version. While the set up 
may work for me there is no guarantee that it will work for everyone. I 
hope this helps?



On 23/04/27 14:29, Derrick Day via NFBCS wrote:
>
> Voiceover blocks this in most cases. I use UTM which is a free version 
> of a hypervisor and I had the same issue. I turn off voiceover, which 
> is a relatively easy way to allow most keys to be redirect-ted. There 
> are some exceptions though, the caps lock key is not directly passed 
> through so you can't use it as a modifier for a windows screen reader. 
> Some other keys like the Insert key are also not passed. I personally 
> don't love using windows virtual machines on mac so I only do it if 
> absolutely necessary, however it definitely can be done if need be. 
> Let me know if you have any more questions and I will be happy to help 
> you to the best of my ability.
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Derrick C Day, student of Westminster High School
>
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> *From:* NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> on behalf of Nathaniel 
> Schmidt via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 26, 2023 8:09 AM
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> *Cc:* Nathaniel Schmidt <schmidty2244 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* [NFBCS] VMWare on Mac (Fusion)
> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to learn to use VMware Fusion on my Mac with a 
> Windows 11 on ARM64 VM. I am also quite a new Mac user so this may not 
> be helping.
>
> But I am having trouble with something seemingly simple that I have 
> always found very easy on Windows with VMWare Workstation Player. Does 
> anyone know how a keyboard user can, if at all, direct keyboard input 
> to and from the guest and host devices? On Windows, this is quite 
> simple: CTRL+G to direct input to the VM and CTRL+Alt to direct input 
> back to the actual hardware host. I’ve tried googling the answer but 
> I’m only getting results about sending keys through that are not 
> commonly found on a Mac in any event, if at all.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nathaniel
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