Sodbeans article
- From: Andreas Stefik <stefika@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Sodbeans <sodbeans-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:19:07 -0700
Hello folks,
Some of you have been in contact off and on about the ongoing Sodbeans
project, which will hopefully expand accessibility in the NetBeans
environment. I wanted to let everyone know that I did an interview with Sun
Microsystems on the project recently and that it is posted here:
http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/central-washington-university
This particular article is basically about the challenges of connecting to
and working with an environment as tremendously complex as the NetBeans
platform and more generally where the project is going. For those still
interested, Sodbeans is still under heavy development this summer, as a
student and I work on designing a new virtual machine for it. Once this VM
is complete, it will give NetBeans a brand new debugger, amongst other
things, designed specifically to meet the challenges of the blind community.
If any folks are still interested in helping out, there are lots of ways to
contribute. Probably the way the community could help us the most is by
creating scripts to help fix some of the major (and I mean really, really
major), accessibility problems in NetBeans on any and all of the platforms.
Any folks that are interested in trying are welcome to get in touch. If no
one takes us up on that, we'll probably start working on those pieces in the
fall.
Hope all is well in the community,
Andy
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