Accessibility issues with programming languages and programming environments pose a
major barrier for students with visual impairments to participate in computing related courses …

Recent research has shown feasibility of an interactive pair-programming conversational
agent, but implementing such an agent poses three challenges: a lack of benchmark …

Recent studies in the literature have shown that syntax remains a significant barrier to
novice computer science students in the field. While this syntax barrier is known to exist …

In recent times, programming environments like Visual Studio are widely used to enhance
programmer productivity. However, inadequate accessibility prevents Visually Impaired (VI) …

It can be difficult for a blind developer to understand and navigate through a large amount of
code quickly, as they are unable to skim as easily as their sighted counterparts. To help …

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) play an important role in the workflow of many
software developers, eg providing syntactic highlighting or other navigation aids to support …

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 …

Sighted programmers often rely on visual cues (eg, syntax coloring, keyword highlighting,
code formatting) to perform common coding activities in text-based languages (eg, Python) …

Command-line interfaces (CLIs) remain a popular tool among developers and system
administrators. Since CLIs are text-based interfaces, they are sometimes considered …

Many efforts to increase accessibility in coding for developers with visual impairments
(DWVI) focus on supporting interactions with development tools. But, to understand how to …