[Athen] python and jupiter

[travis at travisroth.com]

The shipping Jupyter is useless with a screen reader in my opinion. There is an NVDA add-on which claims to add support but all it does is allow you to copy the code from a text field, edit and paste it back. Not really ideal.

I did notice recently that Google’s Colab which is based on Jupyter is more accessible. They have done some work and the edit fields are usable although I am not sure about perfect. Sadly it appears this work has not been contributed back to the open source Jupyter. On the good news front, Colab is free to use at least for basic use.

https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/examples/blob/master/courses/udacity_intro_to_tensorflow_for_deep_learning/l01c01_introduction_to_colab_and_python.ipynb

 

Often what happens is code examples is provided by publishers in Jupyter notebook format. It is possible to extract these notebooks into regular python scripts, just Google for the convert command. It is easier to read them in a text editor although you lose the interactive part. Consider a mix of the two approaches.

Travis

 

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that is going to be my first q smile but for now i am asming that they have the   course work  is  based on it so we need to fix it once and for all smile Lucia Greco

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On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 2:00 PM Deborah Armstrong <armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu <mailto:armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu> > wrote:

Do they really have to use Jupiter? After all NVDA is written in Python. It’s not the language that is often the problem but the IDE (Integrated development environment.)

 

 

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Subject: [Athen] python and jupiter

 

hello  sorry for the  cross posting but i have been asked to find a way to support students that are blind that willbe in classes using jupiter to code in python. have any of you  done so and if so any tips tools or ideas to pass on thanks lucy  

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