I'm a totally blind programmer who saw this start to develop based on email list postings. As far as I remember originally the plan was to make Netbeans more ac

I'm a totally blind programmer who saw this start to develop based on email list postings. As far as I remember originally the plan was to make Netbeans more accessible with screen reading software. This was done by creating Sodbeans, https://sourceforge.net/projects/sodbeans/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/sodbeans/ I tried it out several years ago, and didn't find it to be worth using. By that point I was already quite comfortable with Eclipse, and Netbeans/Sodbeans didn't offer anything to make it worth switching. After working on Sodbeans I guess the researchers decided that they could only do so much to make Netbeans accessible so created a new language. By that point I was already a fairly experienced programmer, so lost any interest since I didn't see the point in learning a new language created at least partially based on the needs of blind programmers that I would most likely never use professionally. I don't have any opinion on whether this is useful since I taught my self to program using GW Basic 20 years ago so have no idea how someone who is blind would go about learning programming in 2018 with current technology.