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 …

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) …

User Modeling and Adaptation for Daily Routines is motivated by the need to bring attention
to how people with special needs can benefit from adaptive methods and techniques in their …

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

Many people do not have prior knowledge about what blinds can or cannot do as
programmers. In fact, they can be efficiently competing with sighted peers when they have …

Programming education is of vital importance because of growing needs for programming
professionals. Even though efforts have been made in order to improve the quality of …

The goal of this chapter is to bring light about how adaptation technologies can ease daily
living for people with special needs. Assistive technologies, adaptive systems and context …

This paper describes a data gathering study, examining the experiences and day-to-day
challenges faced by blind web interface developers when designing sites and online …

The goal of my research is to support the workflow of programmers who are blind; prior work
has found that these users face challenges in using screen-readers to locate errors and …

Recurring problems that are present in introductory and other programming courses have
created a negative and pessimistic opinion among programming novices that enroll these …