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Designing a better IDE for blind (self.Blind)
submitted by __The_Coder__
I was thinking of making an IDE where you could talk with it to make debugging easier like asking questions:
How many lines are there in this code?
How many subroutines are there?
Tell me the names of subroutines
Read out the contents of this particular subroutine
Read line number 27
Will something like this be helpful to the blind programmers? Can you suggest some features that you think will help you in programming.
How many lines are there in this code?
How many subroutines are there?
Tell me the names of subroutines
Read out the contents of this particular subroutine
Read line number 27
Will something like this be helpful to the blind programmers? Can you suggest some features that you think will help you in programming.
Vaelian 2 points 6y ago
I haven't coded anything since going blind, but I believe that the best way to interact with an IDE both with and without vision is by using shortcut keys. There is no need to know line numbers or jump to specific lines in an IDE since the IDE should interpret and highlight all compiler and debugger messages and provide quick ways to jump to all the issues, breakpoints, functions, macros, objects, and classes in the project.
__The_Coder__ [OP] 1 points 6y ago
Thanks a lot. True shortcuts can help a lot. I was wondering this because I had read that most people have problems in debugging the code, so I was thinking what could be done to make the process easier.
Vaelian 2 points 6y ago
Well I'm not really the best person to talk about that as I haven't coded since I went blind due to finding it extremely uncomfortable and unpleasant. Screen-readers are designed to read plain English, not code, and I struggle a lot with Braille.
__The_Coder__ [OP] 1 points 6y ago
I hope there's better and cheaper technology available for reading and better accessibility soon and that more people work on this. Thanks for replying.
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