A Java programming tool for students with visual disabilities

Smith, Ann C.; Francioni, Joan M.; Matzek, Sam D.

doi:10.1145/354324.354356

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“…We believe that for higher level tasks there should be interfaces to allow an adequate access to visual programming such as in [12]. Our proposal goes in a different direction.…”

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Blind learners programming through audio

Sánchez

Aguayo

2005

CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The development of programming skills is a motivating issue in computer science. Most programming languages are focused on sighted users. This study introduces APL, Audio Programming Language for blind learners. APL is based on audio interfaces to assist novice blind learners to develop problem solving and algorithmic thinking skills. APL was designed by and for blind learners to construct meaning by making programs. We tested APL with novice blind programmers during and after development. They tried, analyzed, and make improvements to APL. Learners wrote programs to solve problems with increasingly complexity. Our preliminary results evidence that audio programming languages such as APL can be constructed to fit the needs and mental models of blind learners to motivate and help them to enter to the programming world.

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“…We believe that for higher level tasks there should be interfaces to allow an adequate access to visual programming such as in [12]. Our proposal goes in a different direction.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Blind learners programming through audio

Sánchez

Aguayo

2005

CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Researchers at St. Mary's University and Winona State University have been collaborating on a project to investigate how the computing curriculum can be made more accessible to students with visual impairments, through the use of commercial assistive technology and through the development of a tool to support Java programming [4,10]. Researchers at Curtin University have worked with Cisco Systems to develop an accessible version of the Cisco Network Academy Program's e-learning environment [8].…”

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Introducing Accessibility Requirements through External Stakeholder Utilization in an Undergraduate Requirements Engineering Course

Ludi

2007

29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'07)

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Undergraduate software engineering courses aim to prepare students to deliver software in a variety of domains. The manner in which these courses are conducted varies, though team projects with real or imaginary stakeholders are common. While the key course concepts vary from the entire lifecycle to specific aspects of design, concepts like accessibility are rare.This paper will present a study of team projects in a requirements engineering course. One group of students conducted projects with accessibility requirements while another group of students delivered projects without accessibility requirements.The course content was the same, including discussion of accessibility.To support the understanding of accessibility, stakeholders with disabilities were included in the requirements engineering process. Both teams benefited from the experience as indirect knowledge acquisition occurred. Students from a previous offering of the course, with no external stakeholder interaction, demonstrated lower levels of accessibility understanding.

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“…A simpler prototype version of JavaSpeak was introduced at ACM's Assets 2000 conference [13]. This version included a basic editor and was able to parse a program to generate the speech renderings, but it did not offer all the current levels nor operate as a full compiler.…”

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Computer science accessibility for students with visual disabilities

Francioni

Smith

2002

Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Students with visual disabilities face unique challenges in learning to be computer scientists. These challenges can be overcome, however, with the use of specialized software tools and hardware equipment, collectively called assistive technology. In this paper, we discuss the environment we are using for three students with visual disabilities who are starting in our programs this year. This environment includes a collection of commercial assistive technology and a programming tool that we have developed in-house.

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A Java programming tool for students with visual disabilities

Cited by 43 publications

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Blind learners programming through audio

Blind learners programming through audio

Introducing Accessibility Requirements through External Stakeholder Utilization in an Undergraduate Requirements Engineering Course

Computer science accessibility for students with visual disabilities

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