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Re: Enabling NVDA in Google Docs, in Parallels on a Mac

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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Mar 6, 2018 4:13PM

hi i have done this and i would say your best bet is to use vmwair or
vertual box. the UI is kinda bad in vb so if your blind vmwair is the
better choice i tryed pairalellsfew years ago and it was not good at
managing the sound so that the speachj did not come out rite at all

Lucia Greco
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IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
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On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Levon Spradlin < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Yeah, I have no idea whether or not this will work either. I'm trying to
> avoid hauling around more devices than necessary when traveling, trying to
> get more experience with NVDA. I'm a Mac guy, but do some technical work in
> Parallels on occasion to avoid firing up my PC.
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to get screen reader support enabled within
> Google Docs, but the hot key combination doesn't seem to work. I'm getting
> the usual audible feedback from NVDA when navigating through a doc via
> directional keys.
>
> I'm guessing it's because I'm trying to do this within Parallels on a Mac,
> but I'm hoping that someone else has run into a similar issue and has
> sorted it out.
>
> cheers,
> Levon
> > > > >