Cisco Packet Tracer on Mac

By TheBlindGuy07, 29 August, 2025

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Hi, so in college I have this network class. It's mainly windows here, I just happen to have a mac. I don't have much problems in general with Packet Tracer, it's just a very visual app first but once you read their accessibility guide it's quite good for what I have to do, using the workspace view. I was just wondering before trying this my self if the experience on mac with VO is any better or at least equal to that of Windows?

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By Kushal Solanki on Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 03:20

Good to know that packate tracer is accessible on windows now.
Back in 2018 it was not accessible with windows with JAWS or NVDA.

By Brian on Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 07:01

My experience with it, and NVDA, was very accessible. Granted that was only last year (2024) that I took my Cisco courses that required packet tracer.
The won and only issue I can remember was anytime I had to go into the section where you choose Windows desktop, or command prompt, etc. I believe that was a little flaky in terms of screen reader accessibility, but it was still usable. Just had to deal with counting Spaces to get to the right icon, etc. Hope that makes sense.

By TheBlindGuy07 on Saturday, August 30, 2025 - 15:10

The workspace view is the way to go. Even the cli isn't that bad tbh. Just a bit ob learning curve, it's especially important to get the app's logic, then you're good.

By Kushal Solanki on Sunday, August 31, 2025 - 21:53

back in 2018 it was crap.
I had to use real equipments like real routers and all since cisco packet tracer was not accessible at all.
If anyone can share a demo using it with windows then that would be awesome.