[BlindRUG] Switching from Doing with Eyesight to Doing Without

Godfrey, Jonathan A.J.Godfrey at massey.ac.nz
Fri Mar 31 03:08:38 UTC 2017


Hi Nicholas, See answers to your numerous questions below.

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Dr Godfrey,

Thank you for all your answers. Would it be best to create an rmarkdown file in a place like notepad and put the .rmd file type?
[AJRG] use any editor you like. I have a separate project that is developing one but it is not fit for general consumption. Notepad is fine Notepad++ might be better, but it must fit with your current level of comfort. Move to another tool once you’re sure you are in control of the simpler tools.

Would I run the rmarkdown::render() function with the rmd filename in the parenthesis through the terminal or would I insert it at the end of the rmarkdown file?
[AJRG] yes the filename goes in the() but it must also be quoted

Do you have the example code of an rmarkdown file with all the accessibility features used in the code? I read about all those accessibility features on the website you sent me. I understand all of them, but I need to see how they are in the code to fully understand.
[AJRG] There are links to example files on that page.

Is there a way in rmarkdown to insert an mp4 video file with another file put on to the video that holds the captions on the video screen? Can a video also have a tag?
[AJRG] No idea about video clips of any form sorry.

From what I read, it said rmarkdown creates the tags for images by default with the file address. Is this the case with videos?
[AJRG] again no idea about video, but alt tags are added by explicit use of fig.cap in the opening fence of R chunks in the R markdown file.


Thank you,
[AJRG] No worries
J
Nicholas

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Nicholas J <314nick15 at gmail.com<mailto:314nick15 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hello,

I am legally blind, with enough vision to do things on the computer using Zoomtext and using a portable cctv to view things from a distance. I have been relying on this technology to do everything from programming, to statistical work, to reading, to viewing boards, and surfing the web. I can still see the same amount, but the inefficiencies in all these techniques has become apparent. I have been switching over to technologies like Jaws, Kurzweil, and braille. For r programming, I'm thinking Jaws is the best to use, but I am not sure how. I've read about the terminal and used it before. I mainly use Rstudio visually now and saw that many of the features in it like creating rmarkdown files and such would have to be done differently in places like the terminal. I've learned that Rstudio is not very Jaws friendly, but am not at all sure how to use Jaws and r together. How can you view a whole script of r code at once? In a terminal, doesn't one run code line by line? How can all line be corrected and run at once like in Rstudio? How do I code in r just using my hearing and not eyesight? How do I create such things as an rmarkdown file or a shiny app without Rstudio? I looked through the threads in this list and found things that are very helpful, but am not sure how to use them without using my vision. Any help would very much be appreciated.

Thank you,
Nicholas

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