RE: [Sodbeans-developer] Case sensitivity - feedback welcome
- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'Sodbeans'" <sodbeans-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 12:19:03 -0400
No problems in practice.
ThisSentenceReadsFineWithMyScreenReader.
asDoesThisOne.
Case is used as a word boundary.
Therefore hashtable reads different than HashTable
Take care,
Sina
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Stefik [mailto:stefika@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 11:40 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Sodbeans
Subject: [Sodbeans-developer] Case sensitivity - feedback welcome
Hey folks,
Our development team over here is working on the finishing touches on the
Sodbeans project before release, which is on schedule for
early July (Hooray!). One of the bugs currently listed in our bug database is
that our text-to-speech engine doesn't distinguish
between "case" in variable names. As I go through and use Voice Over (I'm on
mac at the moment), I notice that it doesn't
distinguish between case in words either, although, like most screen readers,
it uses prosody to indicate case for specific letters.
So, I have two questions:
1. How do most blind individuals deal with case and case sensitivity while
programming? My guess is that most people, if there's a
case issue, have go through a variable character by character. Is there other
strategies? Do other screen readers have features for
dealing with these issues?
2. All else being equal, would it be desirable for the blind community to have
a programming language be completely case
insensitive? Or, alternatively, should we output special auditory cues if
something is in Camel Case?
Any thoughts the community is willing to offer would be appreciated. What we
really want to know is, is this issue a really big
deal, or does it not cause many problems in practice?
Stefik
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