Dear #blind developers, what is the current state of generic #accessibility for a software developer on a #MacOS powered computer? Like, VS Code, terminal, something else? I last tried this like six years ago, and everything was awful. What is it like now? Thanks! Boosts welcome.
Florian
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in reply to André Polykanine • • •Mikołaj Hołysz
in reply to André Polykanine • • •VS Code is great.
For terminal, you need to install TDSR and then to silence VO, then it's great too. VS Code terminal exists, but I'm not a fan.
For web, you want Safari, because it's the only browser that does caret browsing accessibly, and you absolutely need that for code. I have a bookmarklet that fixes the "Voice Over pauses on every token" issue, can share if needed.
Hammerspoon with IndentBeeper helps with indentation, VO has native support for it now, but it wasn't as good, at least when I last tried.
André Polykanine
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in reply to André Polykanine • • •No idea, I don't have the hardware for it. All the computers I have (besides this Mac, funnily enough) have some deal-breaking driver bugs.
The only way I use Linux is through SSH, WSL and Orb (basically WSL on Mac), and I want things to stay that way, thank you very much.