Ed Sharp, an accessible text editor for screen reader users

[kestrell]

I found out about this text editor for screen reader users who are writing code.

A couple of its most useful features are that it helps provide info about tabulation and formatting structure (keeping track of the levels can be really frustrating for screen reader users), and it can also be used to convert brf files into plaintext. I’m still at the reading the manual stage, so haven’t tried these features out yet.

I would be interested in hearing from anyone else who has used this editor.

Ed Sharp accessible code editor for screen reader users
by Jamal Mazrui
Download
https://www.freelists.org/webpage/edsharp

EdSharp User Guide
https://github.com/EmpowermentZone/EdSharp/blob/master/EdSharp.md

Note: the GitHub site also has a download, but I couldn't get that one to work, so I used the first one I listed.

Comments

Re: This is why open source

[kestrell]

Wow! Another major intersection of accessibility and usability as it applies to everybody.
Visually impaired computer users are only taught Word and Notepad/ or their iOS equivalents, and that's it, so I've been spending extra time during this web design class trying to find a better/accessible "programming editor." Information for blind programmer's is challenging to locate, and most of it is buried in posts to blind programming lists so it's really difficult to even find out that such things exist.
But thanks for the link to the DW post: I will definitely come back and finish reading it.