[NFBCS] Some Access Questions for Intro CS Class

[Gene Kim]

Hey Natalie,

Pycharm was very inaccessible when I first installed it, but my instructors
tinkered with some of the built-in accessibility settings and now it works
surprisingly well with JAWS. I asked our CS department if they could
document and share how they did it as that would benefit a lot of blind
programmers, but until they put that together I think visual studio code
would be the best alternative.

Kindly,
Gene
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Gene Sung-Ho Kim | B.S. Candidate, Symbolic Systems | Stanford University
Secretary | California Association of Blind Students






On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 12:47 PM Greg Wocher via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hello,
> I do not think PyCharm is accessible. Instead of it I would use Visual
> Studio Code for python development. GitHub is accessible and you should
> have no issues with it. Repl.it is accessible for the most part from what I
> have seen. It should not give you much trouble.
>
> Greg Wocher
>
>
> > On Aug 4, 2020, at 3:21 PM, Natalie via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello:
> >
> > I'm new to the list and apologize if these issues have been explored
> before.
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> > 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.
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> > *     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
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> > Does anyone know if the above are screen reader accessible and if not, do
> > you know of any good alternatives?
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> > I tried a quick test of repl.it and was able to see the code, but could
> not
> > seem to access the output.
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> > Any info is appreciated. Thanks!
> >
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> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Natalie
> >
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