[BlindMath] Question about Computer Programming

Bill Dengler codeofdusk at gmail.com
Wed Oct 9 14:30:04 UTC 2019


Yes, very true.

Bill

> On 9 Oct 2019, at 10:21, John G Heim via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Yes, emacspeak is really awesome. But just to be clear, its not so much that emacspeak has a steep learning curve, its emacs. Well, emacspeak itself  isn't a no-brainer but if you are already fluent in emacs, you can deal with that.
> 
> Also, emacspeak is a Linux program. The OP didn't say but I'd assume they are working in Windows.
> 
> 
> On 10/9/19 8:37 AM, Bill Dengler via BlindMath wrote:
>> Web-based editors tend not to be accessible.
>> The best I’ve seen is likely Emacspeak <https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak <https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak>>  It’s very powerful, but the learning curve is steep and the documentation poor.
>> Bill
>>> On 9 Oct 2019, at 09:29, Christina Martin via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have a student who is in a computer science class who has started using
>>> the computer programming software repl.it. I am able to get screen reader
>>> to work , but am having difficulty navigating the program. I have found
>>> some key commands online to work with the evaluation mode, but struggling
>>> finding key commands to navigate the site and program mode. Has anyone used
>>> this program? If not this specific program, but maybe another computer
>>> programming software you have had success with. If so, what was the
>>> program? Do you have any helpful resources or suggestions for using screen
>>> reader with computer programming software. Thank you for any suggestions!
>>> Christina Martin
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