Re: [orca-list] nvda under the Wine

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com> wrote:
> I'm currently not able to get NVDA speaking using Wine. It complains
> about ALSA, Pulse and a few other things, but it does play the
> startup and shutdown sounds, so ALSA and Pulse don't seem to be the
> real problem. I have the portable version of NVDA in $HOME/nvda.
> Running

But you aren't running Microsoft Windows, thus presumably there's no Winodws
GUI running to which it can connect using whatever APIs it needs.

You could probably run it successfully under Xen, KVM, VirtualBox or whatever
happens to be your preferred virtualization environment.

I've never used Wine (or Windows), but it wouldn't surprise me at all to
discover that Wine doesn't emulate the accessibility APIs and other functions
that Windows screen readers require.

Your only solution at this point is probably to run a real copy of Windows in
a virtualized environment. I have read elsewhere that the standard Windows
licence does not permit you to run the software under virtualization, so
you'll probably have to spend $$$ to buy whatever licence is required.

If you want to help Wine developers to implement the necessary APIs, I would
suggest taking this up with NVDA people and with the maintainers of Wine.

My own solution is simply to avoid Microsoft software altogether, including
all Windows applications. On the other hand, Linux does everything I need, so
that's easy under my circumstances.