Re: Searching for blind programmer to start a school for blind programmers
- From: Dave <davidct1209@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:37:43 -0700
Not really true at least with VS or a few other platforms; you can
quickly create GUI's using the full keyboard access support, custom
screen reader scripts, or just rolling up xml (i.e. in WPF, Android,
etc). As a developer, it's our job to create the tools if they don't
exist; so, let's create them. That's kind of the beauty of
development, you can make it happen.
On 4/8/11, Rick Watson <rwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Good morning,
> I wanted to chime in on this one...
> I think we're facing the dilema of gui interfaces. Let me explain. Yes we
> can develop gui. Here's the issue. Kids today who program can create
> something much faster using the vs environments (for example) than a
> visually impaired programmer.
> And it's the wow factor. Look at what I did in five minutes. It's much more
> of a challenge for us to struggle fighting the tools.
> rick
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Cox
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 11:21 AM
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> Subject: Re: Searching for blind programmer to start a school for blind
> programmers
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> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Ken Perry <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I think trying to just teach programming though is counterproductive
>> because the classes in college do that rather well. I guess teaching
>> people
>> to use tools might be a better goal then teaching coding.
>
> Well, you may be right. With the web, learning just about anything is
> so much easier than when I was a kid. What remains a mystery to me is
> why we're not seeing blind kids going nuts programming computers.
> Surely they have plenty of access to them in the US. Is there
> anything that can be done to inspire the new generation of blind kids
> to dive in and learn what's under the hood? Why do so few seem to
> make it?
>
> Bill
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