What percent of pi users don't connect a keyboard and monitor? I don't mind having a default password since when ever I've used a pi I ran it headless and configured it on first boot with SSH. It would make sense to force the pi user to change there password on first login, can't remember if this is the case.
In my experience it's pretty much impossible to get any kind of UI done in Xcode, at least as of Xcode 7. I'm a totally blind programmer who has a Macbook Air that I run windows on most of the time. I'm not sure if my issues with Xcode were do to a lack of experience with Voiceover on the Mac, lack of knowledge about iOS programming, or lack of accessibility in Xcode. It would be nice if Apple could come out with a basic guide targeted at Voiceover users to create a simple app that allowed you to enter text into a text box, click a couple of buttons and have something happen, etc. I've had a really ahrd time following any guides online to get started with iOS programming. Not sure what other blind developers experiences are though.
I'm totally blind and have what I call no usable vision. I can see light if it's bright or the sun is shining. I can't tell anything about the environment from my vision though other then if there is bright light or not. Anecdotally from talking to other blind people the ability to see light helps set your body clock. Although I keep a fairly normally sleep schedule I know blind people who have no light perception and have a lot harder time keeping a normal schedule with out medicine.
As a blind programmer who uses a laptop I still got a second monitor that was not currently being used by anyone. My co-workers thank me when they don't have to hunch over to look at my laptop screen when going over code.
Listening to the beginning of that video as a blind programmer I'm 99% sure he's using Jaws for Windows.
http://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/Blindness/JAWS
I program in Java and Eclipse for my day job but have found Visual Studio to be really nice to use and accessible with Jaws.
Put the computer in a place where you can see it. Spend time with your child so you understand what they are doing on the computer. Don't assume software can fill in for parenting.
How many blind people did you speak to about this? Why would I want to use a braille keyboard when I can use a qwerty one just fine? Why do I want to filter my news through your app when Twitter, Facebook, and AP all have accessible apps and websites? As a blind person I don't see a point to this, and effort should be spent improving general computer literacy if required, not creating a blind specific interface that is limited.
Please list the limitations you know so much about? Your sample size is far to small to make any generalizations about what blind people can and can not do just because you have not taught any blind students. Also read up on WSL, it's pretty good.
As a blind person I'm glad I have no need for your course since I already know how to program. Linux accessibility is a giant pain for most blind people. While the Mac is accessible your looking at a $1000 entry price compared to $500 for a Windows laptop with a free screen reader. Never assume you know best, people like me have good reasons for using Windows.
furnaces are heavy and cost a lot to transport. It may not cost much more to make them in America and ship them to states close to Indiana as compared to producing them at lower cost in Mexico and shipping them a lot further. ANy cost difference may be a lot less then $23 an hour and worth the PR advantage to making them n the U.S.
It's not stealing since the Apache license specifically allows Apache licensed code to be changed and redistributed with out providing the source as long as mention is made of the shipped product being derived from some other APache licensed code. See
http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/56927...
I'm a totally blind developer and have some of the same issues you do. As far as Chrome dev tools go I've given up on doing any kind of UI work, partially because of accessibility and partially because it does not interest me. My current job is working on a large Java web app. Luckily my company is understanding when it comes to UI so I don't do much of that work but do a lot of API and database work. API's can be tested using curl and database stuff can be done from a command-line. The advantage to working on the app is if accessibility gets completely broken it's discovered early and made to work well enough. We use Eclipse as an IDE and it works pretty well with Jaws. I've used IntelliJ a bit and it's what I'd call barely usable. I am hoping it will continue to improve, the impetus for adding accessibility appears to have been Google switching from Eclipse to IntelliJ when coming out with Android studio. Hopefully Google will continue to insure accessibility improves. As far as JIRA goes I agree with you. I'd really like to hear from Atlassian why they can't display dashboards and issue lists using tables to provide any kind of semantic information. I've found your best bet with JIRA is to have someone sited help set up filters that display what you need. Export the results of the filter to Excel and you can brows a lot of issues quite quickly. I haven't used Gitlab but find Github to be fairly easy to use in the limited experience I have with it. I'm not particularly interested in building tools from scratch since I don't have a lot of free time but would be interested in trying anything that comes out of this.
Using Firefox 49.02 auto detect of language does not work. I'm using Jaws and assumed it was a bad language tag before I turned auto detect of language off.
Do you think Fedora is a usable option as a totally blind person? I'm a totally blind software developer and looked at Linux several years ago. It didn't "just work" and since I already have Jaws for my job which requires Windows I never bothered trying to use the Linux GUI for an extended length of time. I'll have to look at this.
The Jaws problem may have been video card drivers. Jaws installs it's own video driver that I have found to not work under Virtualbox unless guest additions are installed. I could see there being something in the Amazon virtualization solution that could cause problems with the driver.
Is there any possibility of insuring that Workspaces will be accessible to users of assistive technology? I use a WIndows PC because that's what has the best screen reader support, a quick google search didn't turn anything up about running a screen reader in the workspace and having it's sound piped back to the thin client.
I use Fossil
http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
I use the source control portion of it to check in documents and random code samples. I use the wiki portion for notes on things such as server configuration and general info that is not code.
If you can't retire comfortably as a programmer where was all your salary going? I enjoy programming, but also realize I'm limited in how much I will make. I'm ok with knowing I won't own a 5000 square foot house or buy the newest laptop every two years because I'm putting money away for retirement.
As a totally blind software developer I'm sure glad the entire world isn't as closed minded as you. Based on your statements I shouldn't have gotten Braille books as a child because they require more paper, higher transportation costs, and there for are less environmentally friendly then print books. Without them I would be illiterate and unable to hold down a job. While not everything can be made accessible to everyone in a reasonable fashion refusing to put forth any effort even if it interferes slightly with your life is not acceptable either.
Just built this, looks good so far. Being a totally blind back-end developer I've wanted to look at web accessibility, while the app is accessible I think it could be made better so hopefully I can use this as a way to learn.
Longest so far has been two weeks spend single stepping assembly code and viewing memory output. Turns out in the latest OS release memory was not initialized to 0 which caused junk to get copied allowing the program to execute with out crashing but not give the expected results.
Show up to my job as if nothing happened, get a tax adviser, and see if I could get it in a blind trust. I'd turn in the ticket, disappear for a year, and while doing that attempt to bootstrap a software company. If I failed I'd open source what I worked on with the knowledge that the cost of failure would not harm me in any way and be glad I had the freedom to try writing non-trivial software by my self with no financial repercussions.
As a blind programmer I'd love to use this. Unfortunately none of the Linux packages are kept up to date and in the passed I've had issues building from source. There is now a Windows version but I can't get emacs-eclim to work under Windows. Other then emacs-eclim it does not look like there is a good solution for integrating with JAVA and Maven that is kept up to date. If anyone has any ideas I'd like to hear them.
I just want to thank you for writing reckon. I'm a totally blind software developer and find ledger much easier to use then any program with a GUI for keeping track of my mony and budgeting. A large part of what I do is use reckon to enter my creditcard transactions from a CSV export.