Re: JAVA IDE ACCESSABILITY

  • From: Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:26:14 -0600

Hi, Benny,

For Netbeans, you probably want to use the Sodbeans Ide which Andreas
Stefik has developed with his group.  I believe it does a lot to make
Netbeans accessible.  If you have more flexibility, a lot of  blind
people who code in windows will probably recommend Eclipse as the Ide
to use since it is very accessible with screen readers.  If you are
going to work in Linux, You may wish to look into Emacspeak and
Eclipse on Gnome desktop using Orca screen reader as I do not know the
state of accessibility of Netbeans on that platform.  Hopefully,
someone can provide more information here on that as well as on Mac
OSX.

hth,
Alex M

On 12/29/10, Phillips, Benny <BPhillips@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have recently started to learn JAVA as part of some upcoming job
> requirements. I am picking up the language, but need some advice on
> accessible IDE's. It would be best if I could use NetBeans 6.1. Does anybody
> have any experience using NetBeans? If so which version and which screen
> reader do you use? Are the customized scripts for NetBeans? What other IDE's
> are folks using for JAVA development?
>
> Any advice will be greatly appreciated,
>
> Benny
>
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