Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
4 results found tagged blind programmers.
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Designing a Scripting Language to Help the Blind Program Visually
This paper addresses the significant barrier that GUI-based programming environments pose for blind programmers. While programming was historically one of the more accessible professions for blind individuals — with the American Federation for the Bl…
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Accessible Web Development: Opportunities to Improve the Education and Practice of web Development with a Screen Reader
This paper investigates accessibility barriers faced by blind web developers in both educational and professional contexts. The researchers employed a Comprehensive Literature Review (CLR) methodology—synthesizing academic literature, blog posts by b…
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Accessible Blockly: An Accessible Block-Based Programming Library for People with Visual Impairments
This paper presents Accessible Blockly, a prototype library that augments Google's Blockly — the open-source library underlying most mainstream block-based programming environments (Scratch, MakeCode, AppInventor) — with keyboard and screen reader in…
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Coding Non-Visually in Visual Studio Code: Collaboration Towards Accessible Development Environment for Blind Programmers
This paper documents a sustained collaboration between JooYoung Seo, a blind assistant professor and lifelong non-visual programmer, and Megan Rogge, a sighted software engineer on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft, aimed at improving VSCode a…