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From: Katie Haritos-Shea
Date: Oct 9, 2018 5:04PM

Hello All,

Does anyone have experience doing this?

Testing with JAWS/NVDA installed on a virtual Windows 8/10 machine
(Parallels) running on a MACBook Air?

In the past, in other virtual environments, this has not worked well for
me, or at all, even in a Windows virtual running inside a later version of
Windows, let alone inside a MAC.

I know there is the situations where JAWS is installed on the environment
with special scripts. But this is not a special set up.

An organization I am aware of is a MAC-only shop, and they *think* this
will work. It will be tested to see if it does, but I'd love some feedback
from anyone who has done this before ....

(My brain is going "but the drivers....", and "is it going to access the
Windows AAPI?")

Thanks!!