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A Java programming tool for students with visual disabilities

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A Java programming tool for students with visual disabilities
This paper reports on a tool for assisting students with visual disabilities in learning how to program. The tool is meant to be used by computer science majors learning the programming language Java. As part of the developmental process of building this tool, we have implemented a rapid prototype to be used by people with disabilities in order to define appropriate requirements for the full version of the tool. This requires that the prototype is completely usable via a keyboard and speech interface, and it is easily adaptable for trying out different strategies. In this paper, we present the motivation and philosophy of the full tool, called JavaSpeak. We also present the details of a prototype implementation of JavaSpeak. Keywords Java, programming tool, students with visual disabilities, learning to program
Ann C. Smith, Joan M. Francioni, Sam D. Matzek
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Type Conference
Year 2000
Where ASSETS
Authors Ann C. Smith, Joan M. Francioni, Sam D. Matzek
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