[jaws-uk] Re: Hello, and question about software development tools
- From: "Phil Medway" <philmedway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:32:16 -0000
Hi Paul and welcome to the list.
There are a number of programming resources largely based in the US which
may help you to gain an overview of what is possible and where you might
wish to concentrate your attention.
An American based mailing list for visually impaired programmers which
includes a number of very productive members from around the world is at:
//www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
A couple of web sites with links to VI friendly programming resources can be
found at:
http://www.nonvisualdevelopment.org/
and
http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com
The non-visual development site is run by Jamal Mazroui who has created a
great many open source utilities aimed at the VI community and is blind
himself.
The grab bag site is run by another VI contributor to the programming blind
mailing list. He is known as Inthane Elf and, no this is not a
mis-spelling.
Inthane includes a number of Jamal's creations as well as anything else he
picks up which might be of use.
The grab bag site also has Jaws scripts for VS2005/2008 which you may find
useful along with development environments editors and documentation on many
programming languages.
Another IDE which you may wish to investigate is Eclipse which, I believe,
was written in Java SWT but it may take some time to master being a general
development IDE although it appears to be primarily Java oriented.
Information on Eclipse including a list of keystrokes can be found on
Inthane's grab bag site.
I hope that you find some of this useful but I'm afraid I can't give you
much background on most of these utilities from a personal point of view.
Regards,
Phil Medway
E-mail: philmedway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel: 01869 347639
Mobile: 07980 519990
Skype: philmedway
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Hunt
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 6:57 PM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Hello, and question about software development tools
Hello list,
I just now joined this list and have a question I guess mostly aimed at
any software developers out there who use JAWS in their daily work.
I am a university graduate trying to find employment as a software
enginneer or some such type of role and am trying to get a good clear
picture of what software development suites, such as Visual Studio.net and
the Borland IDES etc work with JAWS and how well they work. Also if
particular versions of Windows and JAWS make a difference. For example I
have used Visual Studio 2005 on an XP machine reasonably effectively but it
doesn't work very well at all on my new Vista one.
Any advice or information about software packages or tools people find
they need to use in these types of roles and how they manage to do so (or
alternatives they have found) would be appreciated.
I'm trying to build up a good picture of what works with JAWS and what
doesn't so I can present this to any prospective employers or tailor the
jobs I apply for based on what they're using.
Any feedback welcome.
Paul
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