How do I use parallels desktop on a Mac completely blind?

You'll need vo ocr to press the buttons to instal the vm. Parallels will download and make the virtual machine automatically, it will power it on by itself, and then you’ll be good to go.

First off, it was not dictation. The program's name is vocr. However, I wrote it separately, VO Ocr. Same thing.
Secondly, As for the buttons, yes, you yourself have to press on the buttons, it obviously won't do it for you. What did you think it was; AI to do it for you? Maybe I should've been clear with that part, though I don't see how that needed clarification but anyway.
As far as how to do it? When your in parallels and vo ocr is running, you scan the screen, and click on get windows 11, then continue. Then install windows. That's it. Then just, wait. If you want to see the progress, you can ocr the screen again, but when its done you'll be placed on window's desktop.

Its by, and i'm probably buchering the name but, ki kim, i think? Its this one,
https://github.com/chigkim/VOCR
If that's the one you where seeing that's the one.
Also, they recently added a function where you can essentially add a API key for artificial intelligence, and ask the artificial intelligence to perform tasks, I haven’t tested it yet, but there’s that way, if you want to do it where it clicks buttons for you etc.

You have to have vocr running and your screen curtain turned off. To scan the screen its, control command shift w. You'll hear a sound, followed by voiceover announcing finished, meaning the screen is scanned.
To move through the scan, its control command and arrow keys, up moves up, down moves down left and right move left and right like word by word as an example.
Press control command down ur up arrow until you hear install windows. Click on that by pressing control option shift space, or caps lock shift space if you have caps lock as your voiceover modifier. Then go until you hear the continue button, and control option shift space on it. Then go until you hear install windows and control option shift space on that, if you see something like downloading x percent cancel pause, you got it, just wait for it to do its thing, you'll eventually be put on windows desktop.
As a tip, in vocr settings in the menubar, enable autoscan that way once you click on something it'll rescan screen automatically and you can just go through the scan.

cmd shift ctrl r. Very helpful for this kind of progress bar, I mean its support and integration on both systems for windows.
There was a hot debate about the morality for blind people to pay for parallels, but it's up to everyone to choose. I love opensource and the utm ui as much as everybody else but I find that parallels currently fulfills all my needs, plus it's officially backed by microslop, whatever this is worth nowadays.

I know, not the most productive point to make, but still. It is a real shame that the premier, and now the only functional, app for VMs on macOS is inaccessible without the need of stupid workarounds. I'd be happy to pay, even a subscription, if the app were accessible.

Sigh. Yeah, carry on.

The settings pages are accessible, 95% of it.

Thanks @Igna Triay for the detailed walk-through on using VOCR. I tried to set up a windows VM last year but encountered the same issue @Blind Soft reported with seeing the one jibberish element onscreen. I may try this again. Do you recommend the Mac App Store version or the version from the developer's website?

But I got the website version because I needed to get the student discount.

Fewer restrictions compared to the MAS version. Details here.

Of course, you can take MAS convenience and pricing if you don't actually need those features. But full filesystem access, more advanced networking and completely headless operation are things I prefer to have, so I went with the per-device pricing. I'm not decided whether I should give in and pay subscription, but if I were being sensible, I would.

https://www.applevis.com/guides/instructional-how-you-install-windows-11-mac-using-parallels-v20

They pay apple more + lose 15-30% per transaction, have virtually two parallel codebases of Parallels for... less?

Likely for those who preferred to only install software from the Apple App Store, as opposed to developers websites. 🤷

The App Store version is, more limited. From what I understand it, the web version has a lot more capability, as an example, shared folders, the App Store version is way more restrictive, it’s an example, I’m not sure, but you might not have access to direct folder sharing like you do with the work version. Honestly, I would suggest the web version rather than the App Store version.
As far as why they have two versions? I have no idea, but Brian‘s point about maybe it’s for those people who only preferred to install apps from the App Store might very well be it, personally, though I find it kind of stupid to have 2 versions but, whatever, I guess. But yeah, go for the web version. oh yeah, another difference between the web version and the appstore version, the web version at least if you’re going for parallels standard, does offer a perpetual license. The App Store version? Only subscription.

I am looking to install Windows on my MacBook M1 air, I'm not getting the right version where to install if I install parallel desktop, should I need to have the license key of Windows? Is there any alternative way to install Windows on my MacBook M1 air. Help me to install Windows on my MacBook M1.

Is it worth it? That's, only something you can decide.
Is parallels the only option? No, there's fusion, or utm, though both come with the same problem; do to something microsoft messed up in their latest iso's you might want sighted assistance to install windows as you won't have audio for the, select installer, language etc phaze, unless you have a audio adaptor like usbc to headphone jack, apparently that's a way to get narrator sounds to trigger for that first phaze.
Is this thee only way to install windows on the mac? Yes, virtualisation is the only way. Weather with what program is another matter, but yeah vms are the only way. I mean there are also cloud pcs like shadow pc but that's something else entirely as it’s not installed onto your computer and dordoesn't sound like what you're looking for. That and its, quite pricy too and yeah, more expensive than buying Parallels subscription pro for nearly double I think so as said its technically an option but, not quite what you want.
Do you need windows to be license to use it? No.
as for how to check the right version, what do you mean? Just select windows 11 for arm in microsoft's site, but if you meant version as in should you select pro, home etc? Up to you.

I'm not able to figure out how to install Windows through UTM. I need some help

You'll need either sighted assistance or a usbc to headphone jack for the first install windows phaze. However, where are you stuck exactly, before vm start or when you start the vm? If its before vm start,
You have several sections in utm, I don't have them off the top of my head but, you have to set things like your ram, storage etc and after doing that you should be good to start up the vm.

If you get the stand alone version from the website you can use the key on the app store version. The app store version is better if you want more of a sandbox experience. The stand alone version can get a little busy with various windows though there are a few extra tools that are available.

It is slightly difficult to have both versions on your mac as the stand alone version tends to overwrite the app store version.

From what I have read, the experience of running Windows through virtual machines on a Mac is far from seamless. I previously tried UTM and encountered a show-stopping issue with NVDA speech latency. Every time I pressed a key or activated a command, NVDA would respond with a very noticeable delay, making the experience frustrating and impractical.

Parallels also appears to come with its own compromises. My advice to anyone who is considering going through the various workarounds and troubleshooting steps required to run Windows 11 on a Mac is simple: if Windows is essential to your workflow, consider switching to a Windows machine altogether and save yourself the time and effort.

Personally, I purchased a Parallels license and have done little more than launch the application. Even getting started requires extra steps. I need to use VOCR just to identify certain windows because parts of the Parallels interface are inaccessible, and then I have to work through a lengthy setup process before I can even begin using the virtual machine.

Perhaps part of this is that I am approaching my fortieth birthday and have become less tolerant of unnecessary complexity. More than anything, I want peace of mind when I sit down to use a computer. If running Windows on a Mac means constantly dealing with virtual machine quirks, accessibility workarounds, and troubleshooting, then I think there are really only two sensible options: either accept macOS with all its strengths and weaknesses, or move fully to Windows. For me, that is the reality of the situation.

I have a dedicated hp zbook 14 laptop from 2020, a macbook pro m2 pro, and parallels pro student on it.
And I still manage to smile somehow.

Although it's weird for Apple to partner with Parallels, which is clunkier than Fusion or UTM, it's impressive that the technology needed is all part of the base OS and can be used by Mac App Store apps from a sandbox. Also, the MAS is much more discoverable for normies, so the temptation to pick up Parallels from the Store and just do the odd bit of virtualising will be pretty compelling. Although it's cool to have options, I think it's pretty clear that advanced users should just skip the store version entirely, unless they already have it and don't mind the limitations. The functionality is approximately the same as Standard, but if you're buying on the web, you may as well commit to the Pro version, which is exclusive to the web. The Standard pricing does mean you can purchase a perpetual licence, however, and the MAS version gives you a better deal when you do this, again if you don't mind losing access to full functionality.

As to the experience. The NVDA issues should long be resolved by now, but this was never a problem for JAWS ARM64. I can't say how much of this is down to the machine, but it's true that NVDA had real problems initially. Of course, caveats apply when running ARM64 Windows; personally, I regard it as a nice-to-have, not a necessity. I'm much more interested in future Windows-powered Braille computers—or maybe I can just limp along with Enterprise iOT versions on my old iMac. It's just Windows, after all; it's primary utility is as an operating system for running firmware updaters in. Also reliving the glory days of the audiogame era, and running ancient and/or defunct screen readers.