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Using LINQPad with a screen reader
Hi, I am new here. I would like to learn c# and use LINQPad as my editor. My eyes are destroyed so I am using a screen reading software to use computers. A screen reading software is a program that speaks textual items on the screen but not images or pictures.
I have successfully installed LINQPad5 and most of it's menus and widgets are very accessible (as far as I know I can read everything), except for one.
To read texts, I use arrow keys from the keyboard (left-right to read by character, up-down to read by line).
I chose "c# program" in the language menu and I land on the text editor. Now, using the arrow keys, I can't read anything in the editor. When I type some text like:
string x = "";
My screen reader doesn't read it.
To make sure I am typing on the correct part of LINQPad, I did ctrl+a to select all texts in the editor. And what I got is something like:
void Main()
{
string x = "";
}
// Define other methods and classes here
so I think I have used LINQPad correctly at this point. But I can't start programming because I can't use the arrow keys to navigate through the code I am writing. My screen reader doesn't read the text in the editor unless I select all the texts. I have tried testing it on screen readers
JAWS
and
NVDA
and both did not read the code through the arrow keys.
What should I do?
I have successfully installed LINQPad5 and most of it's menus and widgets are very accessible (as far as I know I can read everything), except for one.
To read texts, I use arrow keys from the keyboard (left-right to read by character, up-down to read by line).
I chose "c# program" in the language menu and I land on the text editor. Now, using the arrow keys, I can't read anything in the editor. When I type some text like:
string x = "";
My screen reader doesn't read it.
To make sure I am typing on the correct part of LINQPad, I did ctrl+a to select all texts in the editor. And what I got is something like:
void Main()
{
string x = "";
}
// Define other methods and classes here
so I think I have used LINQPad correctly at this point. But I can't start programming because I can't use the arrow keys to navigate through the code I am writing. My screen reader doesn't read the text in the editor unless I select all the texts. I have tried testing it on screen readers
JAWS
and
NVDA
and both did not read the code through the arrow keys.
What should I do?
Comments
http://www.linqpad.net/LINQPad092.zip
This runs on Framework 3.5 and supports C# 3. Ensure you run it via the shortcut (which calls LINQPad with the -noupdate and -noforward switches), otherwise LINQPad will patch itself to the latest version.
Alternatively, Visual Studio Code might be an option for a lightweight editor and it supports the latest version of C#, but I don't know how it fares with screen readers.