[BlindRUG] RStudio for blind statistics students

[Hannah.King]

Good afternoon,

My name is Aitch, I work at The Open University as an Accessibility and Usability Tester (predominantly accessibility). I'm currently doing some accessibility testing work on RStudio for a statistics module creation team who are considering it for the course.

If you don't mind, I've been investigating RStudio - and testing it using NVDA and keyboard short cuts to access - and I've come across an issue that is proving hard to figure out and I wondered if I could ask some questions.

I can't get the screen reader to read the output of commands in the console. It will read the commands as I type them, but the output itself remains stubbornly illegible. Is there a way to make it read them that I simply haven't figured out yet?

If not, I wonder if there are any workarounds that you know of, or if you could maybe let me know how blind users do their statistics work? That last may be a more complicated question than I intend!

Thanks very much in advance,

H


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