[issue3942] Usability issue from not being able to use defined start and end code block markers

[Martin Meredith]

New submission from Martin Meredith <mez at ubuntu.com>:

Recently, a blind user posted on Stack Overflow asking whether there was
something that would allow them to use braces within python.

They have a point, with only tabs being show in the editor, it can be
very confusing for a blind user using a braille output, or a screen
reader to be able to tell exactly where in a code block they are. 

Specific Code Block Markers would allow them to understand this in a
more definate manner.

The question can be found at 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118643

Along with some suggestions.

It would be nice if this issue could be resolved in some manner. I
understand obviously, that the fact that python doesn't use braces etc
is why people like it, but the fact that this causes issues so that
python is barely usable by unsighted persons is something that I think
should be addressed.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 73612
nosy: Mez
severity: normal
status: open
title: Usability issue from not being able to use defined start and end code block markers
versions: Python 2.1.1, Python 2.1.2, Python 2.2, Python 2.2.1, Python 2.2.2, Python 2.2.3, Python 2.3, Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.0, Python 3.1

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