The mail archive is your friend as many of the snags you'll run into have been noted and often solved on this list in the recent past. That said, Jaws video intercept driver on Parallels is still not fixed. Apparently Parallels uses its own custom video driver that doesn't play well with the Jaws video intercept. If you don't install that Jaws will launch and work but there are lots of things it won't do well. I didn't experiment too much since running without the video intercept is not the normal setup but I know Outlook was pretty much inaccessible. Just to make sure I installed Jaws 10.0.1154 on Parallels 4.0.3844 which are both the latest with no improvement. After the Jaws install reboot Windows crashes while loading and the only fix is to boot into "Last Known Good Configuration" and then re-install parallels tools. It must be a fundamental flaw in the parallels video emulator because this bug has existed for some time. As was previously mentioned, most Jaws users have moved to Fusion or VirtualBox because of this bug.
CB Esther wrote: > Hello Anna, > > Welcome to the list. I'm not sure that there are many list member > with current experience running Parallels, and I recall from earlier > discussions that users found problems with the Video intercept > handling, at least in earlier versions of Parallels, that were not > present in other virtualizations. A quick search of the archives > brought up this comment, for example: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg36706.html > (Parallels and JAWS Update) > > <begin excerpt> > I noticed there have been some updates to Parallels and to Jaws > recently so I thought I'd give it another whirl. Pretty much the same > problem persists where the Jaws video intercept hoses the video driver > in Parallels. VMWare and Sun's Virtual Box do not seem to have this > issue. > <end excerpt> > > That was quite a while ago, but the most recent comments I've heard > about Parallels as of a month ago from another list indicate that > there are still serious accessibility problems, so most users seem to > have opted either for installing Bootcamp or using VMWare's Fusion. > > The closest discussion suggestion I've heard that might help your case > is to try installing Window Eyes in the event that this correctly > handles the installation of the Video Intercept driver. > > See for example: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg02509.html > > I don't have any experience with this myself, but others may be able > to provide suggestions if you specify the machine you're using and the > version of JAWS. > > Hope your questions can be answered. I've enjoyed reading some of > your posts on the portable-player list. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
