Press control G in the VM ware player window to pass keys through to the virtual machine. What you have to understand about a VM is that it's literally a virtual machine, not some kind of emulator. This means it's effectively a separate copy of windows running on your machine. This of course means you'll have to get whatever screen reader you use, NVDA, jaws, whatever, on the VM itself. You could use narrator to do this, or if you set it up use VM ware shared folders or whatever to access the setup file, that or simply copy it over from from your regular machine to the VM, like, in the C drive or something so it's easy to access, then simply type the file path into the run dialog, so like, C:\nvda_setup.exe or whatever and you're away. I'd generally recommend using narrator at least to get your regular screen reader installed though just to make your life a little bit easier.