Has any solution for blind to run windows under linux?
John Heim
jheim at math.wisc.edu
Sun Jan 11 19:04:30 UTC 2009
My ultimate goal is to be jaws free. And I'm typing this on a Mac
mini. But my impression is that jaws and Windows is still
significantly ahead of Mac OS and voiceover. It takes too many
keystrokes to get things done vya voiceover. I even asked about this
on the voiceover list last summer and the conventional wisdom is that
voiceover isn't quite up to jaws level yet.
I've been trying to get Windows to run in a virtual machine under
linux. I don't think there is any way I'd have been able to get that
done without jaws.
On Jan 11, 2009, at 12:12 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
> I find safari with voice over superior to jaws.
>
> On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:00 PM, John Heim wrote:
>
> Windows still has quite a few advantages as a user interface over
> linux espeically for the blind. Windows and jaws is better than Max
> OS and VoiceOver too. Go on the voiceOver email list and even they
> will admit that. Note that I'm sending this from a Mac mini.
>
> Other reasons to want to run Windows would include the possibility
> that you need to use some software that is available only for
> Windows and the possibility that you have to support Windows.
>
> I just got Windows running in a virtual machine via vmware server2.
> But I'll post another message about that.
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2009, at 6:18 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>
>> Really, that's as bad as running windows on the mac! In both cases
>> why accept the security problems and waste the disk space?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Cody Hurst wrote:
>>
>>> The simple answer is no. There are ways, but you'd better do your
>>> reading before asking such things because the ways that are there
>>> are inaccessible.
>>> And, why would you want to run windows under linux in the first
>>> place?
>>> On Jun 26, 2008, at 6:05 PM, 高生旺 wrote:
>>>
>>>> As title. Thank you!
>>>> Coscell
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