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adobe / brackets

An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
http://brackets.io
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Provide accessibility the code editor for blind programmers #13776

Open shm-vadim opened 7 years ago

shm-vadim commented 7 years ago

Hello!

Now blind programmers have very little tools for web development, which they could use. And Brackets, unfortunately, is no exception. This is due to the fact that the editor code of Brackets is not available to screen readers (JAWS and NVDA), which use blind programmers for work with computer. And I, as a representative of the blind programmers community, ask you to correct this situation.

Thank you for your attention!

Sincerely, Vadim Shmakov

petetnt commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the feedback @shm-vadim,

tested it myself with VoiceOver just now and can confirm that as it stands right now Brackets is currently basically unusable for screenreader users.

shm-vadim commented 6 years ago

Hello!

Thank you for your reaction! Some time ago i had installed brackets again and saw really improvements of screenreaders accessibility!

But, unfortunately, brackets still is not convenient for screenreaders using. Because, when i enter into code editor, which is displaying as html form input, i can read nothing in it by navigation with up, down, left and right arrows. And always i have to exit from this input to see my code below. And to do it every time.

That is actual both for JAWS and NVDA.

Could you improve it?

Thanks!

petetnt commented 6 years ago

Hi @shm-vadim,

Does the same occur in for example the editor on http://codemirror.net/mode/javascript/ ?

If it does, it might be worth submitting the issue as a bug to https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror.

Thanks!