The Inaccessibility of Apple Development for the Visually Impaired

The phrase 'nothing for us without us' has never been more false than ever when it comes to Apple development. It is ironic that the most accessible platform for blind users is the very same that will, in practical terms, prevent blind people from building solutions to help themselves. Xcode playgrounds are not accessible, and the examples are clearly not built in a way that allows young blind programmers to keep up with their sighted peers on a programming college or so.

Will Apple improve? It's hard to believe, given they aren't listening. The variables and others inspectors are far away from the code editor, making it difficult for visually impaired developers to work efficiently. If they did improve, it would be similar because debugging without sight is an unbelievable nightmare on Xcode, especially because the editor cursor does not follow the execution line pointer, making it impossible to know where you are in the code unless you force one command at a time when stepping through lines.

We can't even debug a single case without a device and most corporations are not likely to buy a device only for us or allow us to use ours. Both Aquamacs Emacs 3.6 and GNU Emacs on homebrew are high-quality options for macOS, better than the official GNU emacs release.

As long as you need to use something more than Google on Safari on Mac, things get divided into two categories: they are either completely inaccessible or completely unusable even if accessible. Apple is preventing blind programmers from working productively and in similar conditions to their sighted peers in corporations by not taking care of XCode accessibility.

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