Mindful that I'm responding to a thread that's a few weeks old ... I solved this problem by using a 4 port KVM switch. That gives me one keyboard--though I needed sighted help to reconfigure the "Windows" and "Alt" keys so that my Mac Mini would see them correctly as "Option" and "Command" keys. Hint, they're recognized. They're just swapped, but I was unable to make the edit with just VoiceOver. I have one monitor, rarely used in these days of Covid, sitting at the opposite side of my desk because it's for sighted assistants who sometimes come by. I'm waiting for one now to deal with an inaccessible screen in Native Instruments Preferences on the Mac. I have two Linux machines in this KVM. One is an older tower unit under my desk. The other is a 2020 vintage System76 Mini. The Windows machine, sadly, is a laptop assigned to me by my employer. As it does VPN to the internal Amazon network, I keep it within reach and sometimes use it directly, not just via the KVM. I do not use my KVM to route audio, though it happens also to support that. Instead, I've an old Mackie 1202 audio mixer, and I need to expand to more than 12 channels Frankly.The KVM I have has four hardware switches. They don't lock, but they do work reliably, not that that prevents me from issuing NVDA commands to VoiceOver, or VoiceOver commands to Orca! <smile> Best, Janina Linux for blind general discussion writes: > That is an idea I would not have thought of. > Thanks. > > > On Aug 10, 2021, at 7:34 AM, Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Well, this will probably mark me as a fool, but I just use a Linux machine and a Windows machine connected by Samba. > > Computers are relatively inexensive now, so why bother with virtual machines? > > > > John > > > > -- > > John J. Boyer > > Email: john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org > > Status: Company dissolved but website and email addresses live. > > Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA > > Mission: developing assistive technology software and providing STEM services > > that are available at no cost > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list mailing list > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Janina Sajka https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list