Eliciting Programming Challenges Faced by Developers with Visual Impairments: Exploratory Study

Without understanding the programming difficulties faced by developers with visual impairments, the research community cannot begin to work on effective solutions to overcome these potential problems. This paper will describe our initial empirically based study to identify the problems blind software developers face. We analyzed 69 survey responses with blind developers in an effort to identify the aspects that are indeed a challenge to software development. The results indicate a number of difficulties, workarounds, and basis requirements that will serve as domain and stakeholder understand.

Focus: AI and Disability/Outliers

Source: CHASE 2016

Redability: Intermediate

Type: PDF Article

Open Source: No

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Keywords: Accessibility, Elicitation, Programmers, Visual Impairment, Programming, Challenges, Blind Programmers

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Summary: An empirical study of 69 survey responses by software developers with visual impairments to identify the challenges they face when developing software.