An exploratory study of blind software developers

An exploratory study of blind software developers
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对盲人软件开发人员的探索性研究

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2012
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IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages / Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments
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通讯作者:
E. Murphy
E. Murphy
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作者:
Sean P. Mealin;E. Murphy

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作为一个研究社区,我们目前对盲人软件开发人员所面临的挑战知之甚少。如果不知道这些挑战是什么,社区就无法有效地应对这些挑战。在本文中,我们描述了第一个探索性的实证研究,在那里我们进行了8次采访,盲人软件开发人员,以确定软件开发的方面是一个挑战。我们的研究结果表明,视障软件开发人员面临的挑战,例如,当使用屏幕阅读器来查找信息时,编写代码。我们讨论了各种影响,包括盲人软件开发人员需要额外的支持,发现相关的软件开发工具。
As a research community, we currently know very little about the challenges faced by blind software developers. Without knowing what those challenges are, the community cannot effectively address these challenges. In this paper, we describe the first exploratory empirical study, where we conducted eight interviews with blind software developers to identify aspects of software development that are a challenge. Our results suggest that visually impaired software developers face challenges, for instance, when using screen readers to look up information when writing code. We discuss a variety of implications, including that blind software developers need additional support in discovering relevant software development tools.