Hi there, computer science student here.

For Windows, they can use Eclipse. It's probably the most powerful IDE for Java out there, and it's totally accessible. Regardless of disability, coders usually do prefer that one because it points out when there's an error of any kind, mainly syntactic ones. And Jaws can read it just fine, not sure about other screen readers.

Aside from that, teacher can/should e-mail any piece of code they wrote during class. That will help student to have a better understanding of what teacher was talking about when working on that code.

What else.. If not already done, the student should $1 Maybe that could make the module accessible as well, if it's written in Java.

That's all that comes to mind, I'll add another comment if I remember something else.

Have fun

$1. The simplest solution I can think of would be to find lessons online that don't use images to teach and supplement that with one-on-one instruction. It may be easier for the student to write code in a text editor instead of an IDE.

While I don't know much about Java, I know a bit about programming. I haven't heard of a resource for teaching Java to a visually impaired student, but I doubt it's necessary. Coding is already blind friendly, so my guess would be that a specific resource for teaching a blind student wouldn't be much more helpful.