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International Telecommunication Union ITU Workshop on Accessibility Bamako, Mali, 13 – 15 October 2009 Teaching Programming to the Blind Professor Arun Mehta President, BAPSI ITU Workshop on Accessibility/Atelier UIT sur l’accessibilité Bamako, Mali 13 – 15 October 2009

International Telecommunication Union ITU Workshop on Accessibility Bamako, Mali, 13 – 15 October Why? Programming is an excellent profession for the disabled: pays well, can be done via the Net Software that works for the blind also allows the illiterate to use the computer, including via the phone Secures the lifecycle of software products for the disabled

International Telecommunication Union ITU Workshop on Accessibility Bamako, Mali, 13 – 15 October Software Life-Cycle Identification of problem, solution design, coding, testing, maintenance In all of these aspects, except the coding, we like to involve the blind Why not in coding? A person whose life is improved by some software has lifetime commitment to it

International Telecommunication Union ITU Workshop on Accessibility Bamako, Mali, 13 – 15 October Examples of Great Blind Programmers Chris Hofstader, wrote the screen reader Jaws:”The greatest thing for me was the freedom to invent my future. I was building technology that the next day I could use myself” T.V. Raman wrote emacspeak, which leveraged emacs to make all computer functions accessible

International Telecommunication Union ITU Workshop on Accessibility Bamako, Mali, 13 – 15 October Resources bp-projects at freelists.org: Where members and friends of the Blind Programming list can discuss any programming-related projects they choose to collaborate together on seeks to make maths accessible to blind people

International Telecommunication Union ITU Workshop on Accessibility Bamako, Mali, 13 – 15 October Our Efforts I volunteered for two years at the National Association for the Blind, to teach programming in Visual Basic 6 My students were the only blind programmers on the Obi project (open source Daisy authoring software) Starting a web programming workshop with some blind people in Sri Lanka