[BlindRUG] Accessibility of R Studio?

[Liz Hare]

Hi Kennedy,

RStudio is not accessible. They have claimed to be working on it and that it will be in the "next" release for several years. They are not treating it as a priority, and are not involving blind people in its development.

I think there is s server version that is partially useable but'm not up on that.

I won't be spending time on it when it's first released because I'm not willing to be a free beta tester for the RStudio company.

Liz


> On Oct 15, 2021, at 9:52 AM, Kennedy Stomberg via BlindRUG <blindrug at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello, fellow Blind R users,  
> 
> I have been using R for a few years now, and I've heard that R Studio is a similar program that is much easier to use! When I tried to use R Studio back in 2018, it didn't seem to be all that accessible. But I was also a first-year graduate student so I may not have totally known what I was doing.  
> 
> Anyway, what are your experiences with R Studio? Is it accessible? Is it worth downloading and trying to learn again?  
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help!  
> Kennedy  
> 
> Kennedy Stomberg, M.S. she/her/hers 
> 
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