I have worked with blind developers in person, not just one but several, and expect to do so again in the future. In our shop we provide them with JAWS software and text-to-voice devices. The merely low-vision people get powerful magnifiers and widescreen monitors. Anyhow it makes me shudder to think of having to deal with YAML as Octavian mentions. He is right, it is very very very hard for a blind person to work with space-padded stuff. A language or platform shouldn't be closed off or made impossibly difficult to handicapped individuals no matter how bright they are -- please consider that. Let's go for solutions that work for everyone.
Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Octavian Rasnita wrote: > From: "Marcus Ramberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>> example of a case where POD and YAML were causing new users >>>> confusion? >>>> >>> YAML is hard to understand for a blind developer because if he >>> arrows up or down the text, he hears the current line spoken, but >>> he doesn't know how many spaces is that line indented. >>> YAML is useful only visually, but not all the programmers can see, >>> so from this point of view, other configuration modules are better. >>> >> Does that mean it's impossible to code python if you are blind? >> >> Marcus >> > > Nothing is impossible, but it is much harder. > Some blind users which became blind early enough and learned to use Braille, > can use a Braille display, and it is easier that way to "see" the indentation. > I can't read Braille, and a Braille display is pretty expensive anyway. > > It is also possible to hear the number of spaces when using a voice > synthesizer, but it is not very friendly to use a language like Python. The > languages like perl, Java or C# that use blocks enclosed between { and } are > much more friendly. > > Octavian > > > _______________________________________________ > List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/