Hi! Well, Vmware fusion works fine here but an upgrade is to expensive for me. VIrtualbox can be triggered from the console or terminal. Paralels desktop is not accessible. /A
> 5 mars 2018 kl. 22:07 skrev Linux for blind general discussion > <blinux-list@redhat.com>: > > > I would be curious to hear how you were successful in using a virtual box to > run any other operating system when using a screen reader to interact with > your machine? I have tried VMware Fusion on my Mac, Virtualbox, and Parallels > with absolutely no great success. Virtualbox is completely inaccessible, > Parallels only has a visual install process, and VMware fusion even through > it was able to be installed and ran I was finding that no matter what I did > some how the key commands I was issuing to my virtual machine acted as OS > commands and took me out of th virtual machine. If you were in deed able to > run a virtual instance of Linux on a Mac and rely on a screen reader for > computer interaction I would be curious as to how you got it to work. > > I agree Voiceover does lose focus of the terminal windo pretty often but I do > not see much difference between issuing one command to interact with the > shell or to enter flat review. One thing I did like about Orca was that when > you issue the command in the console it begins reading from the top but just > as with any other screen reader once you stop the speech it just places your > cursor at the bottom of the output window. > > I have not used speakup before but at some point I will have to find the > packages to get it on my Ubuntu box. I appreciate Orca for some things but it > is not enough as a stand alone tool in my opinion. It would be great for > someone to post some configerations of their Ubuntu box which uses Orca, > Speakup, and whatever tools they use to make their machine the most efficient > for the desktop, terminal, and with speech output. Thanks > Bryan Duarte | software engineer > > ASU Computer Science Ph.D Student > IGERT Fellow > Alliance for Person-centered Accessible Technology (APAcT) > Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC Lab) > National Federation of the Blind of Arizona | Affiliate Board Member > National Association of Blind Students | Board Member > Arizona Association of Blind Students | President > Phone: 480-652-3045 > >> On Mar 5, 2018, at 8:36 AM, Linux for blind general discussion >> <blinux-list@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Janina and all, >> >> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:21:47AM -0500, Linux for blind general discussion >> wrote: >>>> 2. You said "After using a Mac for a few weeks at work I was very >>>> disappointed. >>>> Especialy the VoiceOver support in the terminal is not more then >>>> rudimentary compared to the things you can do with a screenreader on a >>>> linux system." >>>> >>> This is my experience precisely with my Mac Airbook. >>> >>> In fact, while traveling with only the Airbook, I would ssh from a >>> VMware Linux session into my Mac to do Mac terminal tasks, because of >>> the superior screen reader support. >> >> I also did it that way and installed a VM with Debian in VMware Fusion >> to get my tasks, that needed to be done in a terminal, done on my Mac >> Book Air. >> >>> As noted above, braille would viciate my statement. I'm speaking of TTS >>> only interfacing. >> >> Me too. Because I learned braille when I was 15 years old, tts is much >> more important to me than braille. I only use braille when programming >> or to format text. >> >> VoiceOver might have a nicer voice then speakup, espeak or other linux >> screenreaders, but navigating the screen is much mor difficult. Also VO >> very ofthen looses focus, is overloaded with much output of the console, >> e.g., and I have not found any settings on my Mac to make those things >> better. >> >> Ciao, >> >> Schoepp >> >> -- >> Christian Schoepplein - <chris (at) schoeppi.net> - http://schoeppi.net >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> Blinux-list@redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list
