Hmmm, did they change this in more recent Mac hardware? I have an older mac
that I run XP boot camped on, and JFW commands with caps lock works fine.
This is in boot camp, and things might not work that way in fusion or on
newer hardware.
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From: "Phil Halton" <philh...@gmail.com>
To: "Macvisionaries" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: running Windows on a Mac
the mac OS treats the caps lock key not as an actual key press, but as a
more low-level system wired event. and neither Fusion nor bootcamp have
access to that key. there is no caps lock available when running Windows on
the mac via bootcamp or fusion. What needs to be done is to remap a key to
act as either an insert or caps lock key, and then set your screen reader
to use insert or caps lock as its modifier key.
What I’ve done is to remap the grave accent key (above the tab key) to act
as a caps lock key. I’ve done this by using the sharpkeys program under
windows to remap the caps lock and grave accent keys so that they each do
what the other key used to do. That is, the grave accent key produces an
caps lock
key press, and the caps lock produces a grave accent/tilde key press.
Then, I use the grave accent key as the jaws modifier key, and if I really
need to get a grave accent or tilde, never have needed either yet, then I
can get them by pressing the caps lock or shifted caps lock.
It’s a little weird, but it works well enough.
There are a few ways to do this, but I think the simplest way for you to go
is to use the fusion remap facility. Of course, this assumes you’re using
fusion and not bootcamp. You don’t say which method you use for running
windows.
In fusion, you can remap the grave accent, or another key of your choice, to
act as an insert key in windows.
Why don’t you tell us which it is and then maybe we can help you through the
process.
Of course, you can render all this moot by buying a Wired USB full-size
apple keyboard which does have an insert key, and plugging it in when you
want to work in windows.
On Nov 20, 2014, at 7:20 AM, Juliette Swiler <jmswi...@samobile.net> wrote:
Hi,
I am wondering if I run System Access to Go as my screen reader under
Windows, how can I get to the System Access menu, the caps lock doesn’t
want to seem to work, and the only other option is insert, which I don’t
think the laptops offer. Is there an alternative to the insert key on a
laptop? I have even tried the bypass command for VoiceOver, but both
screen readers seem to say caps lock on or off at the same time and
therefore the keystroke in windows is not executed. Any help with this
would be appreciated.
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