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From: Heidi Jungel
Date: Mar 22, 2012 11:09AM

Hello-
On my Macbook Pro (Snow Leopard) Laptop, I have JAWS 13 running on Parallels Windows 7. As many of us know, the insert and home keys are missing. I have tried using the site on WebAim:
http://webaim.org/blog/screenreaders_on_mac/

However, it is a few years old and only mentions XP/Vista. I have tried these steps for the Windows 7, but it is not working. Not working in the sense of I can download the remaping key and opened this (it is located at C:Program FilesWindows Resource KitsTools). But that is about it.

When making the change and trying to save and exit, I get a message stating "Cannot open registry". Then, when I click OK, it tells me "System registry has been changed. Do you want to reboot the system?" When I click Yes, and the system is rebooted, none of the changes are in place.

Has anyone else been able to get this working and how?

Your help is greatly appreciated!