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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Agree that Notepad is the way to go when writing code. JAWS reads tabs, spaces and now it also can read line endings in Notepad fine as long as that feature is enabled and you’ve maximized the window.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If the rest of the class is working with an integrated development environment the instructor might need to provide special instructions for importing notepad text in to the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Make sure too, that your student has access to the code samples that are usually a free download with purchase of the textbook. Because an integrated development environment can often help with syntax, he’ll
be missing out on that using Notepad, so code samples are crucial.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If code from the instructor’s book isn’t available, download some of the similar beginning books from Bookshare. To my knowledge the “head first” series is the only computer science book on Bookshare that is
publisher quality where the code samples are all images and thus not readable by a screen reader – Bookshare is aware of this problem and so is the publisher.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">--Debee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>John Gardner<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 30, 2019 2:40 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] Question about Computer Science accessibility software<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I use NotePad and NotePad++ for writing Python code. NVDA has a setting permitting one to hear spaces or tab indents which is the only magic for Python. Jaws probably does also. Fancy editors have other nice
things like colors etc, but for blind people, notepad works just fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">John<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tamara Mariotti<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 30, 2019 10:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Question about Computer Science accessibility software<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good day all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am working with a student who is completely blind and trying to locate a software program that will work with Jaws or Voice over. A large focus of the course that he is taking is writing python programming code. The default IDLE (text
editor) that comes with the Python Windows installation is not accessible. Do you have any resources that might be able to tell us a good programming editor that supports Python for the blind?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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