[macvoiceover] Re: Virtualbox is mostly accessible

Hey there. So this is another way to install Windows and get JAWS runningsay, on an iMac. It won't work on an iBook, will it? 

Jane




On Nov 26, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
No, this is a virtualization product similar to VMWare and Parallels. The GUI is now mostly accessible, and before it was not. If you wanted to use VirtualBox you had to do it exclusively on the command-line. Voiceover will never be able to read other operating systems, so that's never even a question. The main advantages of Virtualbox are that it's free and it has some advanced features that VMWare Fusion and Parallels lack--granted, most people don't need these features but operating system geeks like me find them extremely useful. Something I'm looking into is whether Sun explicitly enabled Voiceover accessibility in Virtualbox or if this means that QT is at long last becoming accessible on OS X. If this is the case it opens up a world of Applications and programming possibilities we didn't have before, a lot of open source applications are written in QT, and even some commercial ones. 


On Nov 26, 2008, at 15:44, Sara wrote:
Hi. Are you saying this makes other operating systems accessible with VO? Really confused here. 
Sara
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Subject: [macvoiceover] Virtualbox is mostly accessible



Hi Everyone
Well, I downloaded the latest Virtualbox, 2.0.6. Typically, I use it via the command-line, and was in the process of running my new Virtual machine when I noticed something very interesting. The text in the information windows was accessible to Voiceover. Needless to say, I dug deeper into this and am happy to report that, with the exception of a few glitches, most of the Virtualbox GUI is accessible with Voiceover now. Most of the glitches involve lists, such as tables. Several of these aren't yet wrapped in accessibility information, and so are reported as unknowns. When you see an unknown in Virtualbox, try and interact with it. More often than not it's a list or control group that you can actually see the content of. Pop-up buttons also need work, but they are useable, you need to work your way down through each choice pressing enter on each one so that the pop-up button changes to the new choice. The pulldown menu's won't read when you press the pop-up buttons, so you need to work with them this way at present. I'll report as I find more, but this is certainly a great start from Sun in making Virtualbox accessible for all users, and was a nice early present that I definitely did not expect :). 



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