This is a topic that came up in the workplace, and I would like to tag @Mewtamer in particular.
For any screen-reader users who write software, what is your method of input? Do you type out your code on a laptop, desktop, smartphone, etc? Or do you use some kind of voice input on a particular device? Do you have a preferred development program or text editor? I’d love to know!
Thank you for your time!
I watch IC_null on Twitch occasionally: he’s been doing Advent of Cyber lately (from TryHackMe, an online cybersecurity teaching platform). He just uses the usual sorts of things: the windows command-line to run network and python commands, Notepad++ for notes, I’ve seen Burp Suite… Sounded like he might be using a mechanical keyboard but not super clicky, I think?
ISTR that exist, or existed, braille keyboards, but I’m not sure.
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
I personally use the nano text editor with espeakup and ordinary typing for writing code, using g++ for compiling c++.
If posts on the Orca mailing list are any indicator, VS Code is pretty popular among Bline Linux coders who prefer a graphical development environment, and while its been a while since I’ve heard it mentioned, emacs has its own screen reader called emacspeak… Don’t know if they are using it for coding, but Pluma also gets mentioned a lot on the Orca mailing list. Granted, a lot of the time when a program gets mentioned on the Orca mailing list, it’s because there’s some odd interaction between the application and Orca.