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I imagine that if we tried to make programming by voice more practical, that would help solve part of the problem. A few developers have made it work but it requires a lot of setup.

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html

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https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/progra...

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i think coding by voice is solving a different challenge than blind developers are facing. Blind developers have no issue with manipulating a keyboard. I feel the most immediate accessibility issue facing blind and low vision developers is quickly being made aware of context changes and making sure the element you expect to have selected is actually selected.

An IDE is pretty much useless to a blind developer if the screen reader cannot adequately relay the current context to the developer.

But what about making it work with existing tools? My u der standing is that when developing software there are a variety of things you must implement so that these tools work well.

I'm interested because LibreOffice has an accessibility layer which I've never explored but that is cross platform.

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