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Re: Using JAWS with Boot Camp on a Mac

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Apr 21, 2015 11:43AM

hello:
its hard to find but it turns out that fn enter works as a insert key if
your in a pinch

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > RE: mapping the JAWS key, I think that's fixable if indeed it's a
> problem. One solution is to install an external keyboard that has the
> Windows and Mac keys on it to accommodate both operating systems.
>
> I occasionally run a Windows screen reader on VMWare Fusion with Windows 7
> and ran into the issue with insert and capslock being modifier keystroke
> with the MacBook Air keyboard. My solution was to get a numberpad with an
> insert key. It's smaller than carrying around a whole keyboard.
>
> Jonathan
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Chagnon | PubCom
> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 6:12 PM
> To: 'WebAIM Discussion List'
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Using JAWS with Boot Camp on a Mac
>
> << Is Bootcamp itself accessible? >>
> I don't know for sure.
>
> But with Bootcamp, you set it up once, install Windows and your software
> once, and that's it. You don't have to do anything else after that, other
> than choose to launch Windows or Apple when the computer starts up.
>
> Technically, the user holds down the Option/Alt key when pressing the
> computer's power button, and keeps it down until 2 icons appear, one for
> Mac the other for Windows. Choose the operating system you want and voila!
> You're at your standard Windows or Apple desktop (or login if you have that
> set up).
>
> The only part of this that might not be accessible is when the OS icons
> appear after the computer starts. Since neither OS has launched at that
> time, I doubt a screen reader has also launched to voice out the icons on
> the screen. But then again, maybe a minimized Voice Over is available at
> that point, too.
>
> But this might be easy to overcome. There's really nothing other than the
> 2 icons on the screen, Mac or Windows, and sometimes a third "recovery"
> drive icon. Arrow left/right will select either operating system. The icons
> don't change, so once you know which icon is Windows, which is Mac, you can
> then arrow to the correct icon and launch the appropriate operating system.
> Once the operating system launches, you're at the usual desktop and your
> A.T. should kick in as planned.
>
> RE: mapping the JAWS key, I think that's fixable if indeed it's a problem.
> One solution is to install an external keyboard that has the Windows and
> Mac keys on it to accommodate both operating systems.
>
> --Bevi Chagnon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> Behalf Of Lynn Holdsworth
> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 2:48 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Using JAWS with Boot Camp on a Mac
>
> Is Bootcamp itself accessible? I used Parallels for a while, but couldn't
> get the Jaws key mapped so gave up and went back to 2 machines.
>
> > On 20 Apr 2015, at 17:51, Chagnon | PubCom < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> >
> > We run Apple BootCamp on all our Macs at my office. Various versions of
> Windows are installed on them: Win 7 32-bit and Win 7 Pro 64-bit. We don't
> have 8.1 running on any of them.
> >
> > Once installed, the Macs boot up into Windows just like an ordinary PC.
> The Windows OS runs natively--that is the Apple OS is not running, and
> Windows is not running in emulation mode (other software like Parallels
> which run Windows in emulation mode). The Apple keyboard is mapped to the
> Windows keyboard (although on some keyboards, it can be confusing to figure
> out at first where the Windows' Alt and Control keys have been mapped to).
> >
> > JAWS runs and operates just as it does on regular PCs. No difference
> that we've found.
> >
> > Bottom line: when you use BootCamp to install and run Windows on a
> Macintosh, you're just running Windows. Nothing's different.
> >
> > --Bevi Chagnon
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> > Behalf Of Moore,Michael (DARS)
> > Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 12:25 PM
> > To: WebAIM Discussion List
> > Subject: [WebAIM] Using JAWS with Boot Camp on a Mac
> >
> > We have a consumer who would like to use JAWS with BootCamp on a Mac?
> Can anyone provide some resources/information on how well this works,
> system requirements, etc.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike Moore
> > Accessibility Coordinator,
> > Texas Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services
> > (512) 424-4159 (Office)
> > (512) 574-0091 (Cell)
>
> > > at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > > > >



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Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
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