Hi Keith, I just did some testing of VirtualBox 5 (latest test build) on my Windows 8.1 PC running Window-Eyes 9.2. The accessibility in the application is far from perfect but I found that the application's menu and menu bar read as expected. The dialogs used to create a new virtual machine and to manage the settings of an existing machine also read pretty well. The main application window that has a list of your virtual machines and the details for the currently selected VM didn't seem to read very well out of the box. If you go to the Snapshots view, the list of snapshots for the currently selected VM is presented as a tree view and it reads as expected. There doesn't appear to be a way to read the text displayed by the application using mouse hot keys. Here is a tip, if you want Window-Eyes to read an entire dialog box or window in VirtualBox, you have to press the read active window hot key twice (Control-Shift-W). Please keep in mind that there is much more to VirtualBox than wha t I covered in my initial testing. I hope you find this information helpful. Regards, Marc
-----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hinton via Talk Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 8:44 AM To: Window-Eyes Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Window-Eyes and VirtualBox Hello folks, I am curious if Window-Eyes would work with a QT written application like VirtualBox for running virtual machines. I am curious if users, or staff members at AISquaired have ever had the chance to try running Window-Eyes with it beore or would be willing to find out if it's doable or not. I am considering deploying VirtualBox since it is a freeware application at some point, plus it offers far more features than VMware does. And I am wondering if anybody has tested VirtualBox with Window-Eyes, especially the most current version, and VirtualBox5.0, the latest stable. I would like to know if anybody has tested this or might be able to do so. It would be fun if I could install it and Window-Eyes just hhappened to work well with it. Thanks for any thoughts! P.s. This isn't something for the average non technical user. You need to be a power user, somebody who will frequently do software testing and development and such in virtual environments etc to really know what a virtual machine is and how they work. If your not up tot he chalenge of possibly looking in to my quesiton, then I would suggest that you don't try it if you don ot know what your doing. Virtual machine environments aren't for the faint at heart to just try to install randomly if they don't know what they're doing on any computer sytem ever built. You need extra RAM and disk space usually, and I'd say more than just 4 GB of RAM installed. Otherwise you're host operating system, the main one your running the VM environments on will crash and possibly become unstable. Regards, keith _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/msolomon%40aisquared.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
