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Presenter(s)
Alireza Darvishy
10793 Ashton avenue 7
90024 LA, CA
Tel: (310) 441 99 27
Email: adiy@tiscalinet.ch
This demonstration presents the non-visual access of Eclipse [1][2] for software engineers, who are unable to use the Eclipse visual interface.
The accessibility of various development activities such as editing, compiling, debugging, browsing as well as issues such as installing and ways of learning for example, are described for Eclipse. Eclipse implements accessibility for disabled developers.
Some approaches for Eclipse accessibility improvement will be discussed.
Screen readers such as JFW and Gnopernicus[7] are used for testing. Visually impaired software developers need to write java code and require accessible tools. They use java mainly for their jobs and education.
Many enterprises develop software in java and their visually impaired java developers need to have accessible tools in order to keep their jobs.
Companies such as Sun Micro systems[5], Microsoft and Oracle[3] invest in accessibility issues. The conclusion of this paper will make some recommendations for better accessibility of these tools for visually impaired software engineers.
References
http://www.eclipse.orghttp://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/2004/proceedings/288.htm
http://cs.winona.edu/cscap/javaspeak.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/access/
http://www.baum.ro/gnopernicus_what_is.html
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