StructJumper

Baker, Catherine M.; Milne, Lauren R.; Ladner, Richard E.

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702589

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“…The users can query and navigate the content of the graphs easily. Baker et al [7] develop a plugin for Eclipse IDE to assist blind programmers in navigating Java source code. It constructs a hierarchical tree of the nesting structure of a program's source code.…”

Section: Application-specific Plugins To Enhance Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Screen Readers’ Plugins

Momotaz

Islam

Ehtesham-Ul-Haque

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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Screen reader plugins are small pieces of downloadable codes that enhance the capabilities of screen readers and often improve accessibility. In this paper, we aim at understanding the user experience of screen readers' plugins, why screen reader users use plugins, who develops plugins, and how plugins are distributed and maintained. To that end, we conducted a study with 14 blind screen reader users. Our study revealed that plugins are useful -from solving minor compatibility problems to enabling blind users to work effortlessly with their preferred screen readers. Among many findings, our study revealed that blind users like plugins for addressing accessibility issues, installing plugins is easy, but finding a plugin is difficult, only a handful people develop plugins, the lack of financial incentive plays in the slow growth of the plugin ecosystem, and the dire need for a central plugin store. In the end, we make some recommendations on how to make the ecosystem better. Key recommendations include creating a central repository for all plugins, engaging third-party developers, and raising general awareness about the plugins. We believe our findings will inspire accessibility researchers to embrace the plugin-based distribution model and focus on improving it.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in accessibility; Accessibility systems and tools.

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Section: Application-specific Plugins To Enhance Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Screen Readers’ Plugins

Momotaz

Islam

Ehtesham-Ul-Haque

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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“…Potluri et al [12] started by categorizing the accessibility issues in IDEs and then created CodeTalk, a Visual Studio plugin, to address a subset of the issues discussed. Baker et al [1] created StructJumper, an Eclipse plug-in to help blind students navigate in the code. Smith et al [15] created a plug-in to make the program hierarchy more accessible.…”

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confidence: 99%

Educational Experiences of Blind Programmers

Baker

Bennett

Ladner

2019

Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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As diversity efforts in computer science begin to recognize disabled programmers as an underrepresented group, we step back to chronicle the experiences of blind programmers in higher education. Through a survey and follow-up interviews with 10 blind programmers, we share reflections and barriers important for the computing education community to understand as we attempt to welcoming cultures for disabled programmers. Our findings illuminated a variety of barriers blind programmers faced in college and the impact that they had on their ability to succeed in the field. We found that barriers permeate all parts of these blind student's' education from accessing the materials and doing the homework to working with professors. These barriers increased feelings of the isolation, decreased motivation especially when tasks were inaccessible, and prevented them from learning all the concepts covered in their degree program.

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“…The challenge of navigating the code and understanding its structure was considered during the development of StructJumper, a plugin for the Eclipse programming environment which enables VI users to navigate through a program written in Java (Baker et al, 2015). StructJumper generates a tree that is made up of the nested structures contained within the program, this enables the user to easily jump between each nested structure in the code.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Programming can be challenging to learn and, for visually impaired (VI), learners there are numerous additional barriers to the learning process. Many modern programming environments are inaccessible to VI learners, being challenging or impossible to interface with using a screen reader (Baker et al, 2015;Stefik et al, 2011) and user interfaces often employ highly graphical depictions (Ludi, 2013). Kane & Bigham (2014) identified the following criteria for the development of environments in which VI children can learn to program:…”

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Making Programming Accessible to Learners with Visual Impairments: A Literature Review

Hadwen-Bennett

Sentance

Morrison

2018

IJCSES

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Programming can be challenging to learn and for visually impaired (VI) learners there are numerous additional barriers to the learning process. Many modern programming environments are inaccessible to VI learners, being difficult or impossible to interface with using a screen reader. A review of the literature has identified a number of strategies that have been employed in the quest to make learning to program accessible to VI learners. These can be broadly divided into the following categories; auditory and haptic feedback, making text-based langauges (TBLs) accessible, making block-based languages (BBLs) accessible and physical artefacts.A common theme among the literature is the difficulty VI learners have in gaining an understanding of the overall structure of their code. Much of the research carried out in this space to date focuses on the evaluation of interventions aimed at VI high-school and undergraduate students, with limited attention given to the learning processes of VI learners. Additionally, the majority of the research deals with (TBLs), this is despite the fact that most introductory programming courses for primary learners use (BBLs). Therefore, further research is urgently needed to investigate potential strategies for introducing VI children in primary education to programming and the learning processes involved.

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StructJumper

Cited by 59 publications

References 12 publications

Understanding Screen Readers’ Plugins

Understanding Screen Readers’ Plugins

Educational Experiences of Blind Programmers

Making Programming Accessible to Learners with Visual Impairments: A Literature Review

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