Help with running Speakup on Kali Linux

[Janina Sajka]

Don:

You should update your JAWS to the very latest. I have it on good
authority they've put in specific support.

Don Raikes writes:
> I just checked and the bash on windows shell does not speak with jaws nor does the vi editor.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Skists [mailto:j.skists at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2018 2:09 AM
> To: Glenn At Home <glennervin at cableone.net>; Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> Subject: Re: Help with running Speakup on Kali Linux
> 
> > Does anyone know which Linux Microsoft is running in the command shell 
> > in Windows 10?
> 
> It's generally Ubuntu (userspace only) by default, but I believe that you can set it up with others (SuSE, etc).
> 
> 
> > I wonder if the Windows screenreader works like it does in a regular 
> > windows command shell, or if SpeakUp needs to be installed.
> 
> The speakup kernel driver won't work, as the Bash on Windows doesn't use a Linux kernel. But, being a standard windows console, it might work with Microsoft tools.
> 
> 
> Justin.
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Janina Sajka

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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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