I went the SharpKeys route following the directions in the podcast on AppleVIS (they shouldn't allow young kids to drink so much coffee). Anyway, it worked quite well and was simple enought to do. My right Alt (option) key is now the capslock key and is available as a modifier key for NVDA or JAWS laptop keybvoard layout. Additionally, the caps lock key is now the right alt key, and pressing it gives some functionality in windows. Formerly, pressing the capslock key did nothing in windows, but now (being mapped to right alt), it actually opens the menu bar. Mac OSX still sees it and speaks "caps lock", but it gets through to windows too. So, you can press capslock + f and the file menu opens, or capslock + E for the edit menu.
Its a little weird though, depending on the capslock state it'll either open the desired menu item, or not. It has to be in the "off" state to work in conjunction with a menu item letter. Pressing caps lock alone will always open the menu or close it just as pressing alt alone would do. So, you can always press caps lock alone, then press the accelerator key, "F" for file, "E" for edit etc. Pretty cool all in all. ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Halton To: Macvisionaries Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 1:16 PM Subject: VMWare and capslock key I'm trying to set the caps lock key as the modifier key for my screen reader (NVDA), but it looks like OSX is grabbing it and interfering so that I can't use capslock+keystrokes. This means I can't setup NVDA or JAWS for a laptop keyboard since they use the capslock modifier. How do I get around this? I want to use Capslock as NVDA modifier in either JAWS and NVDA in a VM running Win7. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
