Exactly, mathew, in order to make a case to a government funding
agency that our research lab should be given any funding at all, we
need to be able to demonstrate that working on programming tools for
blind computer programmers is something researchers should bother to
do. The team I work with thinks the problems blind programmers must,
inherently, face are pretty fascinating, but we have to convince the
rest of the community to deny funding from other projects and divert
it to ours. Funding is always a difficult case to make. Basic
community statistics would be helpful.
Since the major organizations, apparently world wide, don't seem to
keep any kind of statistics on blind computer programmers, as far as
they report to me at least, the best we can do is reference a popular
blind programmer mailing list.
If no stats are available for the list, or they cannot be revealed
without giving away information that is truly private, that's totally
reasonable, but it seems like a perfectly reasonable question to ask.
Andy
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