As I understand it, video intercept and/or Display Chain Management is
what generates the speech in Windows 2000 and XP and perhaps Vista,
although I haven't used Vista. Without it, you wouldn't have speech
generated. Products like System Access and NVDA and Thunder are not
affected by the Video Intercept issues because they don't use it to
enerate speech. Richie Gardenhirre, Anchorage, Alaska. Read Message
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Re: Questions about Parallels
The article seemed to indicate that Jaws worked just fine and to ignore
the video intercept installation prompt. Is there something I won't be
able to do in Jaws without the video intercept? I'm a Jaws novice so I
might have missed something.
CB
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
This is a well-known problem with Parallels:
http://webaim.org/blog/2007/06/29/screenreaders_on_mac/
You'll have better luck with VMWare Fusion when it comes to JAWS video
> interception.
Video interception plays an important role wherever accessibility >
frameworks or custom APIs do not provide JAWS with the information it > needs.
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Chris Blouch wrote:
I was attempting to install Jaws on my Parallels instance of Windows >>
XP and couldn't seem to get the video intercept thing to work. First >>
time I would start Jaws it complained that video intercept was not >>
installed so I let it install. After that Parallels had startup >>
issues and wouldn't work again until I reinstalled the Parallels >>
Tools, which installs their video driver again. Anyone else run into >>
this? How important is the video intercept thingy? My initial playing
>> around seemed to work as far as Jaws reading web pages in IE and >>
such. I had similar issues with VMWare on Windows. Yes, I was running
>> an instance of Windows in a VM on Windows. I was doing that so I >>
could install IE7 without wiping out my IE6. Anyway, it appears that >>
all these virtual machines have their own custom video driver and >>
don't play well with the Jaws one.
CB
Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
Parallels Desktop for Mac is a program that creates a virtual second
>>> computer when it is run. It is on this virtual computer that you
>>> install another operating system, like Windows. So, yes, you >>>
install Parallels first. As has already been pointed out, Fusion is >>>
another option from VMWare which does essentially the same thing >>>
with better accessibility, although Parallels is usable once you >>>
have your OS installed.
Josh de Lioncourt
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On Sep 10, 2007, at 5:21 PM, John Moore wrote:
I am aiming to get a MacBook with Parallels so I can run XP Pro. I >>>>
have a few questions. First, how accessible is it? Will I be able to
>>>> use it effectively and independently? Second, I'd like to know how
I >>>> can switch back and forth between Windows and Mac as I am in a
program >>>> where I need to study Windows, but I still want to do Mac
on the side. >>>> And finally, do I need to install Parallels before
Windows? If I do, >>>> how can I install Windows after that? Thanks for
the help. >>>>
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