Topic by Blue-Eyed Demon 2020-10-16 17:32:19

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hello everyone. So I have previously made threads asking about the accessibility of block-based coding programs. Well with that not coming to any good result, I ended up working with my teacher to try and figure out a different solution. the solution we have come up with is me going ahead and learning repl. So, a lot of things have been working with it. I can write in the editor and and I can see a lot of the buttons, but then when I hit the run button I cannot see the output of the code. So I was wondering if anyone has used repl, and if so, how did you get around this issue? is there a way to see the output or is that part of the program still inaccessible? Any answers, help or advice you can give would be much appreciated.

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Reply by camlorn 2020-10-16 18:09:41

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I'm not sure if the repl is specific software or the general concept of a repl.   You should just use the command line version if you can.  You're not going to have much luck with GUI programming tools outside a very few specific options like VSCode.

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Reply by Blue-Eyed Demon 2020-10-16 18:28:26

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yeah. i wa kind of thinking around the same lines with all of the problems I have been having. I don't know if it will be possible but I am definitely thinking about trying. problem is, with the labs I am doing, there are specific files in the repl project that I would ned and I don't know if I can get them onto the computer itself to use in the commandline version.

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Reply by camlorn 2020-10-16 18:38:58

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I mean, you say the repl.  Is this a specific programming language?

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Reply by visualstudio 2020-10-16 20:02:51

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@4 I think he means repl.it

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Reply by Blue-Eyed Demon 2020-10-16 20:53:10

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@5 yes. That is correct. repl.it.
@4 sorry for not being too clear on that before.

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Reply by visualstudio 2020-10-16 21:27:42

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@6,, it is not accessible at all.

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Reply by Blue-Eyed Demon 2020-10-17 06:33:20

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@7: Well, I mean, that is not entirely true. I did do some reading, and from what I found there are ways to work with it when using screen readers. It's not perfect and I don't know if it is going to end up working out for me, but I definitely wouldn't say that it is totally inaccessible. There are actually a surprising number of things that do work accessibly. The one main problem is that one of the key parts of it that I need in fact does not work accessibly, so that is very much an issue.
At this point I am just going to hope that I can use the command line version of python instead, as that seems to be one of my only remaining options for the moment.

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