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The first time I taught a blind student, I was teaching C. I walked up to them to find they were clearly irritated, and said something like "Nothing works, I do
by CJefferson 5y ago
The first time I taught a blind student, I was teaching C. I walked up to them to find they were clearly irritated, and said something like "Nothing works, I don't understand".
Looking at their computer, it appeared to be off. I said, delicately, that were they sure the computer was turned on. They laughed and turned their laptop's screen on, saying (as you say), they left it off to save battery life!
The problem turned out to be they were using textedit, which while a nice light (and highly accessible) editor, by default turns "s into “”. Unfortunately, Apple's text-to-speech "helpfully" just described all these as speech quotes. This made it impossible to understand, from the compiler error, why the code wasn't working. A quick head into settings and the student was off (they soon changed to textmate, also very accessible).
- vmception 5y agoI hate text editor assumptions Well only the ones that don’t work for me But i hate how hard it is to find an assumptionless and offline text editor these days
- asddubs 5y agopluma is pretty good
- throwaway77112 5y agoWhat about SciTE or Geany? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciTE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciTE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geany
- ufo 5y agoI didn't know it was possible to turn off the laptop screen while it's in use. How is that done?
- jackson1442 5y agoI know you can turn a MacBook's brightness essentially off, just by bringing it to the lowest tick. On iOS there is a VoiceOver gesture to turn off the screen even while the phone is on, so there may also be a purpose-built version of that in VO for macOS. edit: Evidently there is VO-specific tooling: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201443 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201443
- Vrondi 5y agoMost PC laptops have a key in the function key or media control row for this. Look for one that resembles a monitor, or check your laptop's owners' manual.