Planned intervention: On Wednesday April 3rd 05:30 UTC Zenodo will be unavailable for up to 2-10 minutes to perform a storage cluster upgrade.
Published April 18, 2023 | Version v1
Conference paper Open

Addressing Accessibility for Blind and Visually Impaired Live Coders

  • 1. Livecode.NYC
  • 2. New York University

Description

Live coding environments that use text input and audio output have the potential to be accessible and expressive
for Blind and Visually Impaired (BVI) people. However, little is known about their compatibility with the assistive
technologies BVI people use, including screen readers and braille displays, or the experiences of BVI live coders. To
address this gap, we formed FiLOrk, a live coding ensemble made up of five BVI high school students at the Filomen
M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School (aka the Fil’). We introduce the goals and open questions guiding FiLOrk and
report initial findings from our experiences designing a learning environment and building a custom, collaborative text
editor, text.management.

Files

kaneypayne_accessibility.pdf

Files (67.7 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:4eb9c30d1b3b410645d6a54c83acc2ef
67.7 kB Preview Download