[NFBCS] Some Access Questions for Intro CS Class

[Nathaniel Schmidt]

Hi Timothy,

Do you know offhand as to whether there is any major difference between the jamalmazrui/edsharp and the empowermentzone/edsharp repos? I ask for clarification because most of Jamal’s code seems to be on his own personal GitHub.

Nathaniel

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Nathaniel Schmidt
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Bachelor of Computer Science (S306)
School of Information Technology
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
Deakin University, Cloud campus
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> On 5 Aug 2020, at 5:44 am, Timothy Breitenfeldt via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Natalie, I use python all the time.
> I am not personally sure about PyCharm, I think I remember looking at
> it and it not being very accessible or accessible at all, but not sure
> on that one.
> Github is great, I would recommend downloading the git client here:
> 
> https://git-scm.com/downloads
> 
> There are other ways of using Github, but the git command line
> interface is my preference. Don't get sucked into using the github web
> interface, it is a pane, and most people don't touch it much except
> for grabbing links to clone or pull requests.
> 
> At this point, not sure what platform you are on, weather windows,
> mac, or linux, and the screen reader you are using, however, assuming
> windows, yes the python repl is great.
> I personally use NVDA on Windows, but either way, if on windows, you
> can either change the NVDA cursor or JAWS cursor to read the window. I
> can give more detail on either depending on which you are using.
> An alternative, there is a great command prompt keyboard shortcut in
> windows 10, control plus m, which turns on mark mode. This allows you
> to press up and down arrow through your command prompt window output
> without changing the screenreader cursor. You can also use your usual
> selection commands to select text and copy it from the window. Press
> escape to get out of mark mode.
> 
> Web pages is pretty ambiguous, but screen readers are designed to
> handle the reading of web pages, assuming that the web developer did
> not do anything crazy,and forget about accessibility.
> 
> I tend to use ED Sharp for writing python code, and running in the
> command line, you won't get things like auto complete and other fancy
> things that a standard development environment will give you, but ED
> Sharp was created for screen readers, and handles indentation great,
> which is very important for python as you will eventually see.
> 
> Here is the ED Sharp download page:
> 
> https://github.com/EmpowermentZone/EdSharp
> 
> This is a windows only code editor, so if you are using a mac, you
> will have to look into something else. I don't have a lot of
> experience using a Mac, but some.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Timothy Breitenfeldt
> 
>> On 8/4/20, Natalie via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hello:
>> 
>> I'm new to the list and apologize if these issues have been explored
>> before.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I will be taking a university intro CS class this fall and have been in
>> contact with the professor around what platforms will be used to
>> troubleshoot accessibility. Below is a list of some programs I was hoping
>> to
>> gather info about.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> *    PyCharm, a tool for writing Python code
>> *    GitHub, a widely used code hosting platform where students store
>> their code
>> *    Repl.it, provides a way to embed live code samples into the course
>> web pages
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Does anyone know if the above are screen reader accessible and if not, do
>> you know of any good alternatives?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I tried a quick test of repl.it and was able to see the code, but could not
>> seem to access the output.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Any info is appreciated. Thanks!
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> 
>> Natalie
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