Accessible tools

[Jacob Kruger]

I use edSharp as my primary code/text editor, and just save code from there,
and while it doesn't offer too many things like design tools, it's pretty
much perfect in terms of code block selection, code snippets, code
navigation - to a certain extent, even in python, with regards to jumping
from block to block, etc.

Text based IDE would be nice at times, as long as you could review code
nicely enough, etc., and in terms of GUI design I generally just make use
of/work with scrollable grids via wxPython, since that cooperates well
enough in end result with both sighted, and accessibility API users, etc.,
but anyway.

It just means my interface design is done via a form of layout-by-code,
dropping controls in a flexGridSizer as well, but anyway.

My one primary thing I would like to be able to handle in terms of
development process is better means of working with debugging code
execution, etc. - at moment, primarily either print out information to
console, during dev process, or at times invoke sound effects/TTS output to
keep track, or even, occasionally use pickle to store images of objects for
later review, etc., but anyway...<smile>

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
"Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet..."

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Duarte" <bryan0731 at gmail.com>
To: "Jonas Wielicki" <jonas at wielicki.name>
Cc: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: Accessible tools


> Thank you jwi, and Jacob,
>
> I took a look at that posting and it seems pretty unique. I am not much 
> interested in the speech driven development, but I am very interested in 
> developing an accessible IDE. A professor and I have been throwing around 
> the idea of developing a completely text based IDE. There are a lot of 
> reasons this could be beneficial to a blind developer and maybe even some 
> sighted developers who are comfortable in the terminal. The idea would be 
> really just to provide a way of easily navigating blocks of code using 
> some kind of tabular formatting, and being able to collapse blocks of code 
> and hearing from a high level information about the code within. All tools 
> and features would obviously be spoken or output in some kind of audio 
> manor.
>
> Jacob, I know your name and I do know Jamal's name as well. I think I 
> recall your names from either back in the "Mobile Speak" days, or maybe 
> from the jaws mailing list. Either way thank you for the feedback and I 
> will take a look at edSharp today. The Python interpreter is great for 
> small tests or scripts but for lengthy programs there is no easy way to 
> save your code other than capturing the entire history with extra code and 
> all. How do you typically handle that issue? Thank you both.
>
> Oh and before I forget does anyone know how to contact Eric who was 
> developing that accessible speech driven IDE? Thanks
>> On Feb 19, 2015, at 3:08 AM, Jonas Wielicki <jonas at wielicki.name> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Bryan,
>>
>> I don’t have a finished solution for you, but I would like to link you
>> to a previous thread on this list:
>> <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2015-January/696276.html>
>>
>> The poster seems to be researching into the direction of developing a
>> speech-friendly IDE. You may want to follow his work.
>>
>> regards,
>> jwi
>>
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