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Re: Testing with JAWS/NVDA on a virtual Windows 8/10 machine (Parrallels) running on a MAC

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From: Katie Haritos-Shea
Date: Oct 9, 2018 7:13PM

Len,

The keyboard difference does concern me. And I am thinking an attached
windows keyboard is still going to capture the keystrokes as-a-mac /
incorrectly / instead-of-as-windows.... to match windows testing...

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018, 9:01 PM Len Burns via WebAIM-Forum <
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> Iwould not do it on an Air, but I do something similar under Fusion on a
> 2015 MacBook Pro with 16 gb and the fastest available processor that was
> available at that time. I set up Windows 10 with 8 gb of ram. The
> performance is reasonable but not what I would describe as fast. As always
> where a Mac is mixed with Windows and a screen reader you must make peace
> with the keyboarding needs of the screen reader.
>
> Regards,
> -Len
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> -Len
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> Subject: [WebAIM] Testing with JAWS/NVDA on a virtual Windows 8/10 machine
> (Parrallels) running on a MAC
>
> 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!!
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