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

  • From: Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:44:06 -0700

Hi Jude,
Yes, I do have vast memory of vision (I was a low vision kid before I got glacoma at age 14). As for user interface, I can picture it in my head. For now, those are not of my concern, but maybe for future classes (there is a class just for graphics development at my school, and one of the professors here is a researcher in this field). If you permit me, I'm happy to share your email address (along with Black Aires) to my professors (especially the graphics researcher) so that you can assist them. Thanks for your notes (I'll keep those in mind). 
Cheers,
Joseph

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From: "DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26" <jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date sent: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:26:29 -0400
Subject: RE: Any support/suggestions for a blind student...
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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Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 17:11
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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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