From inside the virtual machine, There appears to be a conflict between screen readers. For example, while editing a file in the nano editor, Ctrl+x should exit
If you use VMWare Workstation, this won't happen. Hyper-V is the same way, though unfortunately Linux doesn't support enhanced session mode, so your only option would be SSH in that case for management. What I find for scripting always works is you use PowerShell instead of batch (old, and remarkably outdated, in my opinion). The corresponding syntax would be 'write-host "starting machines" And then you would enter the path to the VMs in turn (hence the Hyper-V argument, for them you can write PS scripts and run them as scheduled tasks). -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Paul O'Rahilly Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 4:12 AM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Virtual machine network, conflict with screen readers Hi there I have built a network of three virtual machines running on my home network, all on my laptop. Each vm has a static ip address and is running a separate application in a Ubuntu Linux environment, . Orca is enabled in each. My laptop is windows 7, running JAWS The virtual machines are bridged. JAWS is turned on when I am working inside the virtual machines. So I am getting feedback from both screen readers simultaneously. Problem 1 I wrote a .bat file to start up the machines automatically. echo Starting virtual machine . Press Enter pause "c:\Program Files\Oracle... the batch file is running successfully, and the machine starts up. But, I had expected the screen reader to read the echo command string. It doesn't. It does read out the c:\...etc line, however. How can I get the echo string to read out ? Problem 2 the editor. However, this sometimes fails, and I get the audio feedback "There is nothing to select", as if JAWS has taken over from orca, and is trying to copy text.. Perhaps you guys have come across these "chesnuts" in the past, and can offer a solution. Thanks, Paul _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins