Has any solution for blind to run windows under linux?

[David Poehlman]

we are mixing apples with oranges here.  getting vm to run under linux  
has nothing to do with voiceover and safari.

Jaws is over crowded with complexity, it robs us of the natural ook  
and feel of the browser and makes a lot of mistakes in doing so.  I  
find it takes no greater number of keystrokes to do most things with  
voiceover.  I don't know what the "conventional wisdom" means here but  
I have been using voiceover for 5 years now and am so glad I don't  
have to be forced to turn on forms mode or turn off the virtual mode  
just to use the web.

On Jan 11, 2009, at 2:04 PM, John Heim wrote:

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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