GopherCon 2018: Writing Accessible Go - Julia Ferraioli

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At GopherCon 2018, Julia Ferraioli talks about being a programmer with a vision impairment and what makes source code easy or hard to read for developers with disabilities. She shows how to write Go that is accessible to them.

HN people send it to anyone asking how code and languages should accommodate disabled programmers, as it applies well beyond Go.

“provides great insight on how difficult might be to read source code for someone with a disability.”
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@henvic2019 · in “Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017)”
Julia Ferraioli's Writing Accessible Go link talk provides great insight on how difficult might be to read source code for someone with a disability. We should aim to make our code accessible for blind developers and for multiple good reasons including opening up opportunities for people and making sure our code is readable for everyone. Often I come across code that wouldn't be there if a blind developer had to work on it just because it would be so hard for them or anyone else to understand without wasting a lot of unnecessary effort that the only plausible solution is to rewrite it nicely. One example is "decorated" code that provides lots of abstractions with no benefits and difficult understanding. ▶ this video
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@TheSwordsman2018 · in “Ask HN: How should a programming language accommodate disabled programmers?”
At GopherCon 2018 Julia Ferraioli gave a talk titled "Writing Accessible Go". She's challenged with some vision impairment, and shares some of her struggles in trying to be a programmer with those challenges. Of course it's contextually about Go, but I think what she talks about applies to current languages and those to come in the future. - ▶ this video
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@bigblind2018 · in “Writing Accessible Go”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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