RE: Auditory interface ideas, what would help?

  • From: "Stanzel, Susan - Kansas City, MO" <susan.stanzel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 09:02:16 -0500

Hi Listers,

What IDE does this work with? I am learning java and feel at a disadvantage.

Susie Stanzel
Programmer U.S.D.A.

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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Stefik
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:28 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Auditory interface ideas, what would help?

Vladyslav,

Thanks for pointing this out. Ironically, my dissertation was done, in part, on 
this very topic. We've got a whole army of techniques for handling it and have 
put in several hundred hours of user testing on it.

So, yaa, in short, I couldn't agree more, virtually anything related to scoping 
is a real pain in audio. In our current version of the tool, we get pretty good 
results with helping folks identify things related to scope, but I think 
there's some improvements that can be made to our design as well.

Anyway, good point,

Stefik

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Vladyslav Kutsenko 
<kutsenko@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:kutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hello Andreas,

Andreas Stefik schrieb:
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.

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.

I think it is very important to get information on the context the code is in. 
So for example, it is sometimes quite time consuming to read code which 
contains  numerous into each other embedded variable scopes. In my experience, 
maintaining of such code, often results in algorithm errors. The information 
about the level of scope recursion which could also contain additional 
information about the scope properties, e.g. "if block", "for loop ...) would 
be in my opinion of huge importance.

Thank you for your work!

Vladyslav


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