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Re: Students with Blindness

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Originally Posted by xBlazeTECH View Post
First of all, I would like to apologize, I was not meaning for what I wrote to be offensive, but I mean the way the teacher worded it, he/she did not say something like, It may be harder to work with this type of person, but instead the teacher said "Are you sure you want to have this person in your class? You know he is disabled right?" I feel that his way of addressing this is very offensive.
Let's not get into this. dtengineering was simply asking you to not hold blame in the wrong area. No one's angry.

As for the situation, it will be very hard for the student to do graphical programming with LabView. He/she will need to learn Java or C++, as it is text-based and capable of being read out loud with a screen reader. There is a very nice post on StackOverflow.com (programming Q&A site) that has information on advice from a successful blind programming using a screen reader called JAWS (first answer).

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...if-youre-blind

The post specifically states to stay away from Netbeans, as it does not have full speech reading compatibility. Eclipse IDE is recommended for C++, but not Java by FIRST. If you end up trying out Java, there is experimental Java plugin for Eclipse you could try. I got it working, but there's no support by FIRST at the moment.

This is definitely possible, but it will unfortunately require the student to have double the passion and time for learning programming as everyone else. Good luck!