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Advice Request: Looking for VI professional programmers (self.Blind)
submitted by fbracing02
Im looking for advice from VI people who program professionally, perticularlly in what tools you use and why. I have RP and am looking at a career change into coding and would like to try this avenue.
WhatWouldVaderDo 3 points 4y ago
In general, VI programmers are all over the spectrum, from system and embedded programmers using C, to line of business programmers using C# and java, to data analysts using Python and R, to web developers using Php and javascript. Tools include command line compilers, fancy editors (Visual Studio Code, etc.), and full integrated development environments (Eclipse, Visual Studio, etc.).
I would suggest that you start with any programming tutorial that covers what you’re interested in, and figure out what tools programmers use in that domain. Once you have an idea about what you want to use, then look if there are accessibility problems/solutions.
A good resource is the program-l list, https://www.freelists.org/list/program-l.
I would suggest that you start with any programming tutorial that covers what you’re interested in, and figure out what tools programmers use in that domain. Once you have an idea about what you want to use, then look if there are accessibility problems/solutions.
A good resource is the program-l list, https://www.freelists.org/list/program-l.
fbracing02 [OP] 2 points 4y ago
Thank you for your response. I currently program as a hobby and have been for 10 years or so. What im mostly curious about is what accessible programs people use eg. does NVDA work well in visual studio.
WhatWouldVaderDo 2 points 4y ago
Yup, the Visual Studio team has done quite a lot with accessibility over the last few years. There are even a few VS managers on that list I mentioned so they can directly engage with the community. NVDA and Visual Studio Code also works very well.
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