CodeTalk: Improving Programming Environment Accessibility for Visually Impaired Developers

Published: 07 April 2018
on channel: ACM SIGCHI

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CodeTalk: Improving Programming Environment Accessibility for Visually Impaired Developers
Venkatesh Potluri, Priyan Vaithilingam, Suresh Iyengar, Y. Vidhya, Manohar Swaminathan, Gopal Srinivasa

CHI '18: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Session: Designing For Disability

Abstract
In recent times, programming environments like Visual Studio are widely used to enhance programmer productivity. However, inadequate accessibility prevents Visually Impaired (VI) developers from taking full advantage of these environments. In this paper, we focus on the accessibility challenges faced by the VI developers in using Graphical User Interface (GUI) based programming environments. Based on a survey of VI developers and based on two of the authors’ personal experiences, we categorize the accessibility difficulties into Discoverability, Glanceability, Navigability, and Alertability. We propose solutions to some of these challenges and implement these in CodeTalk, a plugin for Visual Studio. We show how CodeTalk improves developer experience and share promising early feedback from VI developers who used our plugin.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174192
WEB: https://chi2018.acm.org/

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