Re: Seeking Assistance with Python's IDLE for Blind Users

Jeff, there are a few specific programmer's resources for blind/VI programmers that might help more - I am myself a 100% blind programmer, and, would not necessarily recommend idol from our perspective, since most people use VS code, or things like edSharp or even pycharm, but, I am a user of NVDA, which is itself written in python, and not a jaws user, so you might do better to ask some of the other people in that context - general blind programmer's mailing list:
https://www.freelists.org/list/program-l
And, the pythonvis blind python programmer's mailing list:
https://programmingforeveryone.groups.io/g/pythonvis
But, besides that, I am a 100%/full-time python web-developer, who uses python for other things as well, and, besides VS code, edSharp programmer's text editor is still probably my code editor of choice.
Jacob Kruger
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On 2024/11/11 00:28, Jeff via Python-list wrote:

Dear Python Users Group,
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I am currently learning Python. I am blind and use the JAWS screen reader to
assist me. I am trying to use Python's IDLE editor but find it quite
challenging. When I move my cursor to a line of code, it reads out the
letters or words from the line above, which makes it very difficult to edit
the code accurately.
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I am reaching out to see if anyone knows how to configure IDLE to call out
the letters or words that the cursor is actually on. Additionally, I have
searched extensively online but have not been able to find any documentation
specifically designed for blind users on how to effectively use Python's
IDLE.
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Any guidance or resources you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
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Thank you for your assistance.
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Best regards,
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Jeff
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