Tim, I am also on the blind linux list. I do not often post there as I predominately use a Mac and the Unix terminal but I am using Linux Kali on the side for some side tinkering and learning. I would use Linux a lot more if the screen reader was not so robotic... Would you be willing to be included in some accessibility Q&A or to bounce some ideas off of? > On Feb 19, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > > While not blind, I have an interest in accessibility and answer a > number of questions on the Blinux (Blind Linux Users) mailing list. > > On 2015-02-19 08:33, Bryan Duarte wrote: >> A professor and I have been throwing around the idea of developing >> a completely text based IDE. There are a lot of reasons this could >> be beneficial to a blind developer and maybe even some sighted >> developers who are comfortable in the terminal. The idea would be >> really just to provide a way of easily navigating blocks of code >> using some kind of tabular formatting, and being able to collapse >> blocks of code and hearing from a high level information about the >> code within. All tools and features would obviously be spoken or >> output in some kind of audio manor. > > It would seem that the traditional Unix-as-IDE[1] would serve you well > here. This is my method of choice, and it allows me to pick my > components and combine them. I usually use tmux, though GNU screen > would do too. Within that, I usually have the following: > > - vim to edit my code. Though swap in your favorite, whether > emacs/emacspeak, ed/edbrowse, joe, nano, or whatever. I know that > at least Vim and emacs support "folding" away blocks of code (what > you describe as "collapsing") which I usually prefix with a comment > that would give you a description of the block > > - a command-line (I use bash, some prefer zsh or tcsh or whatever) > for things like version-control, running my code, and file > management (move/copy/delete/rename/link/etc) > > - a Python command-line REPL that allows me to do quick tests on a > line of code as well as well as make extensive use of Python's > built-in dir() and help() commands which are invaluable. > > - when doing web-development (Django in my case), I'll often have the > dev-server running in one pane, and a console browser like > lynx/links/links2/elinks/w3m in another pane so that I can put my > code through its paces > > Another benefit of this is that I can run this on my development > machine, but then SSH into the machine from anywhere, reattach to the > tmux/screen session, and have the same configuration right as I left > it. > > The entire tmux/screen session can be run within an accessible > terminal window (I know that some are more accessible than others), > within a terminal screen-reader session (like yasr, screader, or > emacspeak), or even remoted into via an accessible SSH program on your > platform of choice. > > -tkc > > [1] > http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/ > > > > > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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