[nfbcs] choosing a specialization within CS

[Sabra Ewing]

Visual studio may be accessible, but the documentation definitely isn't. There is very scarce documentation specifically designed for screen reader users, and if you are not used to an environment like that, it is not very intuitive. It is not like, oh, I can't remember the shortcut so I will find it in the menus. You either know the shortcut or it's a no go as far as visual studio is concerned because they allow you to get around with shortcut keys, but when I was using it, I was never able to access any menus or ribbons like in word or another program that is made by Microsoft. Also, I don't mean offense by this, but many of the blind people who have documentation in their brains about how to use it that they got from the nose where, have not bothered to write a manual for the rest of us, and can be very hottie exclusive where this knowledge is concerned. If you already know a lot about programming though, you might have better luck using it. I personally think that web development might be better because you can have stylesheets and HTML really is not that hard. The only problem you might have is with graphics, but you might not even have that problem since you used to be cited. However, visual studio allows you to make websites as well. They were doing that in my visual basic class. The good thing about visual studio is if you can get it to work, you can easily move controls around on the screen. It has a coordinate system, which no one at my university could tell me how to work and I could not find this information online, but if you can figure out how to work that coordinate system, you can put controls wherever you want.

Sabra Ewing

> On Mar 11, 2018, at 4:38 PM, Ryan Boudwin via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I currently work in enterprise technical support management. I've always
> had an interest in software development, and am intending to learn to
> program in order to diversify my skill set a little bit.
> 
> I had been working through freecodecamp before I found out I was losing my
> vision to RP as web development is very big in my local job market. I am
> wondering now if web development as a specialization still makes sense or
> if I should focus on a different programming language, like C# (since I
> hear Visual Studio is more accessible than most IDEs). My central vision
> still works but I don't want to count on that for my professional future,
> and I'm dealing with some eye fatigue issues that is motivating me to learn
> JAWS asap.
> 
> Is there any particular programming specialization that is more or less
> accessible than others? My current role I can do without vision, but I
> still want to learn to program.
> 
> Ryan
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