[NFBCS] Scripting Fundamentals Course

[Littlefield, Tyler]

If the lines of code are typed, they can be displayed in braille without 
issue.

If this is Python, please make sure that indentation is preserved when 
typing out this code so that she can see which indentation level each 
line is at.



On 11/11/2021 1:45 PM, Linda Coccovizzo via NFBCS wrote:
> I am not sure why they are spelled out. My supervisor couldn't see the text
> I was reading, so that is why I think it was alt text. I thought spelling it
> out might be for the sake of the audio player for students with other print
> disabilities, but last I knew, those players didn't read alt text. I am just
> wondering if we need to manually type the lines of code, and if it would be
> best for her to have them to be read by her screen reader, or if we would
> need to putt hem in braille.
>
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> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Scripting Fundamentals Course
>
> Why would you spell out punctuation names? If you do that, they take up a
> lot more space on a Braille display, and more keystrokes to navigate through
> each one.
> Are the punctuations allowed in descriptions, e.g. could you write "("
> as a description?
>
> On 11/11/21, Linda Coccovizzo via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Hello all. I have a student who is taking a scripting fundamentals
>> course, where the book is a Cengage unlimited subscription for
>> MindTap. I noticed that in the book, which I understand is only
>> available in MindTap, has the lines of code embedded in images. It
>> appears that the accessibility answer for this, was to alt tag the images,
> by writing things out word for word.
>> For example, parenthesis and quotes are spelled out like, "opening
>> parenthesis, closingparenthesis, open quotes, closed quotes." Also,
>> the words are separated by commas. I don't think there is a supplement
>> to download, where the lines of code would be written out in text.
>> What would be the best way to make the code accessible to her?
>>
>>
>>
>> Linda Coccovizzo
>>
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