I know two amazing programmers with significant disabilities and have also studied IT accessibility enough to be certified; the teachers who taught the courses are right down the hall from me and they'd be much better at answering the question in depth than I am.
I'm not sure what's the most helpful thing to do here - an information dump of my class won't help the thread, but I don't want to be pushy about the specific physical limitations and choices of operating system involved? Would you want me to try to make connections between the person asking the question and our IT accessibility team members? (This is one of the things the University of Illinois is particularly good at! :D) -----Original Message----- From: Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Rowell Sent: Friday, September 08, 2017 12:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Discuss] Resources for programmers with limited uses of hands From a friend of a friend: "I am working with a very talented undergraduate who has muscular dystrophy and very limited use of his hands. He’s wicked smart and interested in biology and trying to figure out what he’s going to do after undergrad. I’m trying to push him towards bioinformatics, but he’s hesitant because, while speech-to-text software works great for writing papers, he doesn’t think it will work well for coding.” Does anyone know of any tools or resources that could be helpful here? Thanks! --Billy _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
