Hi all
So are you saying the instructions posted don't actually work? I'm
talking about the one that was forwarded to here.
Regards Chris
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On 10/03/2014 00:08, Phil Halton wrote:
Hello Cathrine,
I encountered the same problem of getting stuck in the combo box. I found a way to do the
remapping of any key in the "to" combo box to the grave accent key. Here's
what needs to be done.
1) VO to the first shift check box and park the mouse on it by pressing
VO+command+ F5.
2) VO right arrow to the first combo box and press the grave accent key. Don't
open the combo box with VO Space, just move to it and press the accent key.
3) Now VO right arrow to the next combo box and here you do want to open the
box, so press VO Space on it. That'll bring up a list. arrow down and back up
to select the insert key in the list.
4) now to get out of that list, you need to turn of VoiceOver with command F5,
then do a mouse click by pressing down on the mouse pad (careful not to move
the mouse, just press straight down on the pad).
5) turn VoiceOver back on and you'll be out of the combo box and you can use VO
right and left arrows to read your selections and make sure they're right. then
move to and click the ok button.
6) back in the previous screen , the table should now contain your remap. You can uncheck
the "enable remappings" checkbox and the remap will remain in the table, but
won't be active if for any reason you don't want to use it but don't want to delete it.
BTW: There's no particular significance to parking the mouse on the shift
checkbox, you just need to have it parked on some element so when you click the
mouse after shutting off VO, it'll snap the system out of that weird combbo box
situation. I successfully followed this procedure twice to test it out and make
sure it works before sending the message.
Good Luck.
On Mar 9, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Catherine Turner
<catherineturner2...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi again,
Ok so I tried to remap keys in Fusion and can't get it to work. I get
to a list of current mappings and press add. I'm then in a dialog
where it seems I'm supposed to choose the key I want to press and then
what I want it to map to. There are some checkboxes with all the
modifier keys, I leave them unchecked. There's then a combobox which
I press and then I get stuck. It seems like it's listening for
whatever key I press but neither the grave key nor the insert key on
my external keyboard are being picked up by this. Additionally the
only way I can get out of this is to press command q to quit Fusion.
Is it possible to do these mappings with Voiceover? Or is it
impossible, in which case I guess that's why people are using Sharp
Keys. Will look for that podcast then, but it'd be good to hear if
anyone has successfully remapped using Fusion preferences...
Catherine
On 3/9/14, Catherine Turner <catherineturner2...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Ok, will go the easy route first and try remapping from Fusion. Have
you any idea why the caps lock works with NVDA? Seems odd as I
wouldn't have thought what programs are running inside the VM would
make a difference to whether osx passes through a key or not...
Catherine
On 3/9/14, Apple boy <christopher...@gmail.com> wrote:
This is just so awesome! I honestly thought you absolutely needed Sharp
Keys in order to use Windows on mac properly with screen readers. Now I
see Fusion alone can do this, I will take the easy way out and use the
remap settings in Fusion. Although I'm coming in late to this thread,
I'd like to thank those for showing us this awesome tip. It may just
encourage those who were discouraged previously, myself included, to
re-visit Fusion again.
Regards Chris
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On 09/03/2014 13:46, Phil Halton wrote:
You're exactly right, OSX doesn't pass the caps lock key to the windows
VM. The workaround is to remap another key on the keyboard to act as a
caps lock or insert key. Many people remap the grave accent key (above
the
left tab key and below the escape key) to caps lock.
This can be done several ways, one way being the use of a windows
program
called "sharpkeys". .
Another way, is to remap the grave accent key to the insert key from
within fusion settings themselves, and then Jaws will respond to the
grave
accent key as though it were the jaws modifier key, either caps lock or
insert, whichever you setup.
Remember, you can remap any key you want, but the grave accent is rarely
used, and so makes a good candidate for remapping.
I am currently using the grave accent, remapped using SharpKeys, to act
as
a caps lock key with Jaws set to use the laptop keyboard with caps lock
as
modifier key. It works great for me. Although, I'm going to switch to
the
Fusion key remap method just to simplify things and eliminate the need
for
a program like sharpkeys.
There is a podcast on how to use the sharpkeys program on applevis.com,
search for "sharpkeys" and it should come up in the search results. . It
can be a little tricky to understand and use the first time, so if you
need help and specific directions on its use, sing out.
BTW: I find that keeping a full-sized Apple USB keyboard around is a big
help when using these remap procedures. I just plug it in and it gives
me
a insert key that jaws and NVDA will respond to as their modifier keys.
Its really indispensable when you start changing the modifier keys and
need both a caps lock and an insert key temporarily.
For example, using the fusion method, I find I need that keyboard in
order
to have an actual insert key I can press when trying to make the fusion
key remap as there is no actual insert key on the apple portable
keyboards.
On Mar 8, 2014, at 7:07 PM, Catherine Turner
<catherineturner2...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm having some problems using JAWS in a virtual machine and wondering
if anyone can help.
I'm using JAWS 14 on Windows 7 via VMware. I usually use an external
keyboard with my MacBook because I'm one handed. I normally use the
desktop keyboard layout for JAWS but am without an external keyboard
now. I'm wondering how people manage on the Mac keyboard with JAWS.
My understanding is that JAWS should be able to use the caps lock as
the JAWS key but I can't get this to work. I chose laptop layout from
the keyboard layout in basic settings but whenever I press caps lock
Voiceover just says caps lock on or off and JAWS acts if I'm not
pressing the JAWS key e.g. if I press caps lock and t for title, JAWS
just says t. It's as if the caps lock key isn't being passed through
to Windows. But this is strange because it works properly when I use
NVDA instead of JAWS.
Can anyone help? Am I missing something? Any ideas why JAWS/Windows
isn't picking up the caps lock? Any other way round it?
Thanks,
Catherine
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