jducoeur | Accessible Programming

Just a quick shout-out to the Scala Center -- the group that shepherds the Scala language -- for their new accessibility initiative. They're exploring how to get the compiler working in a usable way with screenreaders, so that sight-impaired folks can actually make use of it.

(See the linked article and the SCP behind it for a bit more info, but the heart of the point is that literally rendering Scala code to speech produces nigh-incomprehensible results. So they're starting to study how to express the concepts in a way that can be understood through speech.)