Making programming accessible to the blinds

摘要

Development of graphical interfaces and visual programming concepts has created serious problems for the blinds regarding usage of computers and visualization. While this problem is still not so big regarding everyday computer usage it has become a major problem for blind programmers. In this paper we give an overview of major problems for the blinds regarding visual programming, we describe present efforts to make graphical interfaces more accessible to the blinds and we point out the concepts and tools that have been developed for blind programmers education and everyday work. We also show what present solutions lack and give possible solutions for resolution of this problem. Finally, we give an overview of our findings about what solution would be the most logical choice and we give a description of this solution's concepts.