This then means a blind person can use any accessible application. The more common solution by far is to have a screen reader which runs in the background monitoring OS activity and alerting the user via synthetic speech or a physical braille display (generally showing somewhere from 20 to 80 characters at a time). Raman and the Emacspeak environment mentioned in other answers. Some people use a talking environment, such as T. Though the original question was around configuring the environment, I think it's best answered by looking at how a blind person would use a computer. I'm blind, and have been programming for about 13 years on Windows, Mac, Linux and DOS, in languages from C/C++, Python, Java, C# and various smaller languages along the way. I'm playing with Emacspeak under cygwin I'm not sure if this will be usable as a programming editor since it appears to be somewhat unresponsive but I haven't looked at any of the configuration options yet. Examples of this are if statements with lots of nested parenthesis’s and JCL where punctuation is incredibly important. I find I usually work faster with speech but use the Braille display in situations where punctuation matters and gets complicated. I usually rely on synthetic speech but do have a Braille display. I used an rlogin session through Cygwin to access the USS subsystem on the mainframe and C3270 as my 3270 emulator to access the ISPF portion of the mainframe. A lot of my internship involved programming for Z/OS. net programming I use visual studio 2005 since it was the standard version used at my internship and is very accessible using Jaws and a set of scripts that were developed to make things such as the form designer more accessible.įor C and C++ programming I use cygwin with gcc as my compiler and emacs or vim as my editor depending on what I need to do. In my experience as a general rule java programs that use SWT as the GUI toolkit are more accessible then programs that use Swing which is why I stay away from netbeans. For java programming I use eclipse, since it’s a fully featured IDE that is accessible.
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I use windows xp as my operating system and Jaws to read what appears on the screen to me in synthetic speech. I am a totally blind college student who’s had several programming internships so my answer will be based off these.
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