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As a blind programmer I assume IntelliJ is completely inaccessible. I attempted to use Android Studio several months ago and it was completely inaccessible. Ecl
by jareds 12y ago
As a blind programmer I assume IntelliJ is completely inaccessible. I attempted to use Android Studio several months ago and it was completely inaccessible. Eclipse is pretty good though, I think part of this is do to IBM being a big backer of the Eclipse foundation.
- swartkrans 12y agoWow, that's too bad. I hope they fix this.
- partomniscient 12y agoI'm wondering roughly how old you are? Curious question: As a blind programmer - has the 'JavaScript everything' approach to the web made your personal content consumption easier or harder? I briefly crossed paths with some blind users back in the late 1980's back when there was no heavily established GUI for the sighted masses (i.e. Windows 3.11). I'd be interested to know, compare and contrast how easily 'consumable' present cyberspace is versus the command-line era.
- jareds 12y agoI'm 28. My first memories of heavily using the internet were internet explorer 4.0. I'd say that web accessibility has gotten better and I can use most web applications. Some of this is do to the fact that I am a power user and know my screen reading software well. I can't talk much about how the GUI has effected blind users since I started teaching my self to program at 14. WHile learning to program I also learned to use the commandline and find it is still better for some things. For example I use todo.sh on my PC along with the todo.txt touch app on iOS to keep track of tasks since I find that on the PC a commandline interface for something like task tracking is quicker. FOr email I use the standard gmail web interface or Thunderbird instead of a text based email client because I find it easier to use especially since I do not have a lot of email to deal with.