Accessible Blockly

Block-based languages are a common way to engage novice programmers, especially children. However, accessibility is lacking. Our work adds keyboard navigation and screen reader support to the Blockly framework to increase accessibility.
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AccessCSforAll, May 09, 2019
Speaker: Stephanie Ludi (University of North Texas)
Block-based languages are a common way to engage novice programmers, especially children. However, accessibility is lacking. We will present our work in adding keyboard navigation and screen reader support to the Blockly framework to increase accessibility to block-based languages for persons with visual impairments.

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