Seeking Assistance with Python's IDLE for Blind Users

Jacob Kruger jacob.kruger.work at gmail.com
Tue Nov 12 03:03:00 EST 2024


Jeff, there are a few specific programmer's resources for blind/VI 
programmers that might help more - I am myself a 100% blind programmer, 
and, would not necessarily recommend idol from our perspective, since 
most people use VS code, or things like edSharp or even pycharm, but, I 
am a user of NVDA, which is itself written in python, and not a jaws 
user, so you might do better to ask some of the other people in that 
context - general blind programmer's mailing list:

https://www.freelists.org/list/program-l


And, the pythonvis blind python programmer's mailing list:

https://programmingforeveryone.groups.io/g/pythonvis


But, besides that, I am a 100%/full-time python web-developer, who uses 
python for other things as well, and, besides VS code, edSharp 
programmer's text editor is still probably my code editor of choice.


Jacob Kruger
+2782 413 4791
"Resistance is futile!...Acceptance is versatile..."


On 2024/11/11 00:28, Jeff via Python-list wrote:
> Dear Python Users Group,
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> I am currently learning Python. I am blind and use the JAWS screen reader to
> assist me. I am trying to use Python's IDLE editor but find it quite
> challenging. When I move my cursor to a line of code, it reads out the
> letters or words from the line above, which makes it very difficult to edit
> the code accurately.
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> I am reaching out to see if anyone knows how to configure IDLE to call out
> the letters or words that the cursor is actually on. Additionally, I have
> searched extensively online but have not been able to find any documentation
> specifically designed for blind users on how to effectively use Python's
> IDLE.
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> Any guidance or resources you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
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> Thank you for your assistance.
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> Best regards,
>
> Jeff
>


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