One might hope for this, but I suspect there's a builtin problem with
Windows screen readers. Are any of them any good with text output in the
terminal? I haven't tried recently myself, but I don't see as there's
been any reason for them to get any better this way.

Decades ago we had pretty powerful screen readers for DOS, and we
certainly have a very powerful screen reader on Linux consoles in
Speakup. But, without something similarly capable, I don't see how cli
based apps are going to attract blind users on Windows. Sad, actually.

Janina

Devin Prater writes:
> Well, now that bash is everywhere, perhaps we'll see a console comeback, at 
> least for the blind. I could see great email clients and web browsers come 
> out of this. But then again, it may just be a sort of forgotten thing, on the 
> fringes of knowledge, like the windows command-line is for most users.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Jul 24, 2016, at 5:22 PM, Christopher Chaltain <chalt...@gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Well, I need to still look into this more myself, so I don't have all the 
> > answers yet like those of you who have explored this more already, but I'm 
> > not sure why this has to be a half baked solution. Also, even though 
> > developers have been dealing with cross platform development for a while 
> > doesn't mean it can't be improved or that this won't open up some more 
> > opportunities for developers to quickly make some applications available on 
> > multiple platforms. I'm also thinking of the cloud where developers might 
> > want to manage multiple operating systems, like Windows and Ubuntu running 
> > in clouds such as Azure or AWS. Providing the ability to quickly build a 
> > framework based on tools common to both Windows and Ubuntu seems like it 
> > would be a good idea in this situation.
> > 
> > For me, I like seeing new innovative things being done and offered. Let 
> > things like this be made available and see if any bright developers or 
> > users out there want to take advantage of it. If it doesn't work then it 
> > doesn't harm me at all, but if it does then who knows what I'll now have 
> > access to. I'm just glad there are people out there trying new things and 
> > not just listening to the nay sayers who are happy with what they have and 
> > think everyone else should be as well.
> > 
> >> On 24/07/16 12:27, Kyle wrote:
> >> I'm not exactly sure why developers would want this either. Windows
> >> developers already had Visual Studio, which they apparently love, and
> >> GNU/Linux developers will continue using GNU/Linux, where all the
> >> development software anyone could dream of is free and open source.
> >> Developers, more even than regular users, want a complete solution, not
> >> some half-baked attempt at GNU in a Microsoft environment. They will
> >> either go for 100% Microsoft in the Windows + Visual Studio, or they
> >> will develop for GNU/Linux. Cross-platform developers will continue
> >> doing what they have always done, which means running multiple OS's and
> >> building for each one individually. I guess maybe people building
> >> Rockbox who have used GNU/Linux to build it for years will possibly be
> >> able to fully build it in a Windows environment without Cygwin, but
> >> what's the point, especially when they've already been using GNU/Linux
> >> for years to do that?
> >> Sent from a sign o' the times
> >> 
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