[BlindRUG] BlindRUG Digest, Vol 72, Issue 1

[Liz Hare]

Hi again,

I knew I'd be back with more thoughts about R and accessibility. This isn't strictly an accessibility issue, but it feels like one.

I work a lot in base R because I've been around for a long time and it's most familiar to me. i'm also used to being the data person on any project so I haven't been challenged much to update to a more tidy style. I use it when there's a good reason to.

I'm working on a new project now with a guy who's more tidy-oriented. Things that would have been plain data frames in my code are tibbles in our code. Working interactively with tibbles, you get less control over being able to view, say, the 
head() 

or 
df[1:10, 1:10]

to see whether the data is as I expect.It could be great to have some way to check data as a data frame even when the tibble class is present. I hadn't been able to find a solution a few months ago when I was working on this data.

The context is that I'm working in emacs with a window for commands and a window for output and I go back and forth between them. This is probably similar to the VScode situation.

Liz



> On May 27, 2023, at 4:16 PM, Jonathan Godfrey via BlindRUG <blindrug at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The request for a dark theme in `ggplot2` could probably be handled as an issue on the GitHub site. I did think there was a dark theme of some sort though, so perhaps the description needs to be more informative. FWIW, I don't live in this space so I can't do justice to a low-vision person's request without understanding what the limitations of the current options are. I would need help.
> 
> WRT RStudio: This will get a mention if/when necessary, but I'm pretty confident the issue is known and not likely to be resolved in this setting (if at all).
> 
> More ideas please everyone,
> Jonathan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [BlindRUG] BlindRUG Digest, Vol 72, Issue 1
> 
> Dear Jonathan
> 
> I support your list. The only two suggestions i'd add are not base R
> issues, but may still be worth airing depending on who is present:
> 
> - RStudio accessibility (an old issue i know, but i think poor RStudio
> accessibility is still a barrier to entry for some people when it
> comes to R.)
> 
> - And it would be great if just one of the themes included in
> ggplot2() can be a high contrast dark theme (i.e. black panels and
> background with white lines). This is also a barrier to entry issue
> since at least some people with low vision first have to figure out
> how to mannually change plot attributes before they can use the most
> popular plotting package in R.
> 
> Thanks
> Marcus
> 
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