Are there other programming tools that you know of?
- From: "david ingram" <dingram269@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:12:02 -0500
Hi how are you? I have some questions on what programming tools would help
when it comes to learning and understanding the different programming
languages? I ask this question, because i've taken a couple of programming
languages and i'd like to know if there is a way to learn more about different
computer programming languages as well as what would be the best ways to use
access technology to our advantage while programming in different computer
languages for example basic, and c? Colbalt was the next language, but I'd
like to know if there is a computer language that comes close to the jaws
scripting language and how to transfer the skills from the computer programming
languages to the jaws scripting language? I would appreciate any information
that you might have? P.S. I'd also like to know if you may have heard of the
w e a program? I think that this is a program that people can take advantage
of and i'm learning some things that people can go to get certified to do but
the problem is that more people should know about such programs and how that
can be used as a tool to help reach the goal of employment.
I appreciate your thaughts and comments.
----- Original Message -----
From: Andreas Stefik
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Sodbeans
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 11:37 AM
Subject: Auditory interface ideas, what would help?
Hello folks,
We're getting pretty close here in our netbeans tools, possibly within the
next few months, to adding some very nice auditory enhancements to NetBeans for
blind users. I've got an overwhelming number of ideas about what could help,
but I can't implement them all and would like to get some feedback from the
community. Specifically, we're looking for some ideas in two main areas, code
completion and auditory navigation.
1. Code completion --- Whenever I've talked to folks in the past about code
completion with audio, people have suggested that one of the most annoying
issues with code completion is changes in focus.
Anyone have ideas about auditory code completion? Besides managing focus
better, anyone have any ideas on how to make it more accessible?
2. Auditory navigation --- I have a graduate student currently working on a
blind code navigation system. Right now, the system allows you to jump around
the source window and find variable declarations, method declarations, and
other similar things, but we want to expand the navigation to make things
easier.
One idea I had, for example, was to make the navigation window "debugger
sensitive" so that if you are navigating around while your code is executing,
there will be audio that tells you more information about what you've browsed
to. For example, if you navigate and land on a variable, it might tell you its
name, type, and if the debugger is running, what its value is, or other
information, depending on how much useful audio we can put into a short cue.
But really, we're doing this project for this community. We genuinely want to
make our tools as accessible as humanly possible, and we're going out of our
way to make it so. If anyone has any ideas about what kind of tools would help
you, go ahead and put them here, I'd love to hear about them!
Obviously, we have limited development time, so it's unlikely we'll implement
every suggestion, but brainstorming helps.
Andreas Stefik, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
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