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I'm a blind developer and I've found Windows 10 to be pretty good about not throwing up popups if you configure it well. This is because we have a good IT group who builds machines from scratch so there's no trial software. I build my personal computers from scratch so install the OS avoiding junk software. When Windows does have notifications it's pretty good about putting them in the notification center so I can look at them when I want instead of having to deal with an notification dialog right away. I had the IT group find me an old external monitor. Although I don't need it it's much easier to have the screen at eye height when a co-worker is standing then requiring them to hunch over and look at a 13 inch laptop screen.

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I think the D programming language site is accessible to the blind, but I don't know what inadvertent accessibility problems there might be with it. If you could please have a look and let me know about any difficulties, I'll get them taken care of.

https://dlang.org/

The Khan Academy people wrote a JS script called tota11y that will let you inspect your site: http://khan.github.io/tota11y/

The site appears to generally be accessible with the exception of the interactive tutorial. I'm not a web accessibility expert so don't know the details. There are two major issues. The biggest one is my inability to arrow through the code in an edit field. I can read the text outside of the edit field, but it's difficult since line numbers are interspersed with the text. My assumption is that your using an open source editor which is inaccessible, but I have not had the time to look at the tutorial on Github. The second issue is that there are buttons that my screen reader reads as "button". While run, edit, and format are read properly several other buttons are not.

Thank you! This is just what I was looking for. I filed a bug report:

  https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17794

and we'll get it fixed.

I'm a little unsure what you mean by arrowing through the edit field. The cursor moves around as I press the arrow keys, as they would in a text editor.

> have a look

> > have a look

Please don't do this, on the Internet or anywhere else. Blind people don't need you to speak in ghetto terms or start self-moderating the things you say to any greater degree than you (probably) normally would.

I agree, but don't you think you are contradicting yourself by jumping in to defend all blind people?

I also "watch movies".

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