Visual Studio seems like an odd choice...
How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]
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Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
And many modern languages don't have semi-colons. Wonder if they can be removed from C#?
I think he means the extra quotes that was causing syntax error.
Oh, that one hanging out at the end of the line? Hopefully, a better assistant could suggest that as a fix then you'd simply have to say "fix line 11", for example. It has got to get increasingly difficult to find even simple syntax errors in a lot of code, if you are visually impaired.
Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]
#13I imagine many would benefit if we had a smart developer assistant where it could have a higher level understanding of programming. "Jarvis import library foo" - could be said from anywhere in file "Jarvis jump to file bar.c" "Jarvis declare var current temperature equals zero" - var currentTemperature = 0 "Jarvis write for enumeration on var word over var name list" "Jarvis build and run" or simply "Jarvis run" By t…
IMHO I don't think it would fly. The most difficult things of programming are too abstract for that. You may be interested in the guy that did all his coding with voice for a while because he couldn't use his hands, and still uses it to this day about half of the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI
Yes, I already know many people don't think it will work. I have that url, along with a few others in my Programming by Voice notes:
https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/progra...
No one said that you have to do everything. Start with what's possible then iterate.
Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]
#14Visual Studio seems like an odd choice...
He works at Microsoft.
But seeing "Visual Studio" and "blind" together did make me look twice.
Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]
#15I always wondered how someone could use text-to-speech effectively, especially with a programming language full of symbols with long names such as 'semi-colon', 'underscore', 'left parenthesis' etc. The answer it seems is to speed up the voice tenfold! Honestly incredible he's fine-tuned his other senses well enough to be able to code at a reasonable speed again.
> The answer it seems is to speed up the voice tenfold! That seems very common for systematic text-to-speech users, I saw a video a few months back of a lawyer (?) demonstrating ios's accessibility (rotor, voiceover, blind curtain, …) and the TTS speech was so fast it sounded like white noise to me.
That would be interesting to watch. Do you have a link for that?
Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The answer it seems is to speed up the voice tenfold! That seems very common for systematic text-to-speech users, I saw a video a few months back of a lawyer (?) demonstrating ios's accessibility (rotor, voiceover, blind curtain, …) and the TTS speech was so fast it sounded like white noise to me.
That would be interesting to watch. Do you have a link for that?
Sadly no, I tried looking for it but I haven't managed to dig it back up.
Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]
#17For me the message is clear here:
Listen Mr. Senior Principal Architect, not only cheap H1B Indian guy, but even cheap blind H1B Indian guy can replace you!
What I don't like about MS is that in their promo materials developing software is so easy. Drag and drop here, autocomplete there, and here we go, an ERP system! In reality though...
Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]
#18I imagine many would benefit if we had a smart developer assistant where it could have a higher level understanding of programming. "Jarvis import library foo" - could be said from anywhere in file "Jarvis jump to file bar.c" "Jarvis declare var current temperature equals zero" - var currentTemperature = 0 "Jarvis write for enumeration on var word over var name list" "Jarvis build and run" or simply "Jarvis run" By t…
If I'm reading or thinking and leaning back in my chair I often want to say or gesture a command to scroll up or down for example, it happens more often than not when reading long articles.
(btw, if anyone knows anything about software/hardware to do that? let me know)
It would good to have the options to voice or gesture command a desktop computer.
Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]
#19I imagine many would benefit if we had a smart developer assistant where it could have a higher level understanding of programming. "Jarvis import library foo" - could be said from anywhere in file "Jarvis jump to file bar.c" "Jarvis declare var current temperature equals zero" - var currentTemperature = 0 "Jarvis write for enumeration on var word over var name list" "Jarvis build and run" or simply "Jarvis run" By t…
Drop the prefix keyword and then we might start talking about "smart".
Oh, and it must work locally instead of sending everything to the cloud.
Re: How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]
#20In my first developer job, I worked with a blind developer. Back then it was green screens, ksh, vi, and a screen reader. That was over twenty years ago.
I'm surprised the process is very much the same today as it was then.