RE: Any support/suggestions for a blind student...

From: "DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26" <jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:26:29 -0400
If memory serves one of the email lists I receive distributed a message
containing R.N.I.B. summary study results from a study R.N.I.B.
published in 2009.  The study used 300 participants with all levels of
blindness.  The study's purpose was to discover to what extent blind
people could do graphical user interface software development.  The
results shouldn't have been surprising either.  It was found that those
participants who had some memory of vision could do graphical user
interface programming; the longer the memory of vision, the easier it
was for them to do software development.  The participants that had no
memory of vision however had major difficulties with doing that kind of
programming.  In time this will impact windows and software development
platform interfaces that run on windows but that hasn't yet happened.  A
real good analogy to consider on the Linux side is a software package
called xenity.  What xenity does is to inhale a bash script and produce
a graphical user interface-friendly program equivalent that can be run
on gnome with a mouse click.  As I see it, Microsoft made two mistakes
with Windows which until they're corrected the best software for those
of us with no memory of vision to program for will be Linux in its
varied forms.  First, the command line interface was made into a very
poorly equipped environment for software development.  Second, if
someone does console-based development of software within Windows to my
knowledge to date no xenity equivalents yet exist for any supported
software development package now running on Windows; I would love to be
corrected on this point if at all possible even if packages under active
development are all that can be offered as suggestions.
 


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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joseph Lee
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 17:11
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Any support/suggestions for a blind student...

Hi veterans, programmers and students,
For those who does not know me, I am Joseph, a computer science 
sophomore student at University of California, Riverside (UCR).  
My main interests are all about assistive technology and computer 
education, more specifically embedded devices, networking and so 
forth.
One of my CS professors who teaches C++, asked me to ask you if 
you have any suggestions/opinions for learning graphics and 
general mathematics, which I know is important for engineering.  
I thought of using tactile arablets such as so-called "Talking 
Tactile Tablet" or via PIAF (Picture In A Flash).  Since I'm the 
first blind CS student at UCR, the engineering professors there 
are interested in how a blind student can learn programming and 
graphics.  I told the professors there about this list and how 
there are blind programmers (like you guys) who writes GUI apps.
So, in summary, I'm wondering if there is a programmer here who 
can work with me to come up with a solution - allowing me to 
learn programming effectively from a blindness perspective.  If 
you permit me, I'm willing to pass on your contact information to 
the UCR CS faculty so that they can contact you for assistance 
(especially when it comes to learning graphical information such 
as math, hardware organization chart and so forth).  Thanks for 
any assistance on this matter.
Sincerely,
Joseph S.  Lee
University of California, Riverside
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