Re: Understanding accessibility challenges for visually impaired developers

Dear Venkatesh Potluri,

This is Shankar from Chennai.  I am working with children and friends with
visual impairment on information accessibility, computer / mobile access
and also with vendors developing applications for computers, assistive
devices and apps for mobile in training and support. I also work as a
volunteering consultant with Government, National Institutes, Universities
and Schools.

It is a great initiative. Meanwhile, would also like to share with you that
it accessible through screen reader and request my friends of developers
community to complete the survey.

Few suggestions too.

Question No. 13
Since how long have you been coding?
apply to only current developers. I would be glad  Could you please include
Others for Question 13. I was able to fill up, though my coding knowledge
of more than 10 years have down due to me not involved in development any
more. More into evaluation, testing, training and support now

A question for someone who uses other IDE like Eclipse for development or
into testing because somebody could check Visual Studio without programming
knowledge too, out of interest. I understand this is for developers still
would get more valuable inputs from the other side too.

And, from the questions 15, 16, 17,18, 19, 20 I could now clearly
understand that the survey is more pertaining to Visual Studio
accessibility. I would like to request for changing the subject of the mail
for including ' in Visual Studio'. Because after submitting the answers for
all 14 using a screen reader as a non visual studio user, they could not
answer exactly for the rest of these questions.

Would be happy to assist in any opportunities for accessibility and
inclusion initiatives.

Thanks again for the initiative taken at the development front.
-- 
With best regards,

Shankar
Agate Infotek
Chennai
Ph: 9840097237
Email: shankar@agateinfotek.in, agateinfotek@gmail.com
www.agateinfotek.in
-----------------------------------------------------------
Noble thoughts and deeds shower happiness always!
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Venkatesh Potluri <
venkateshpotluri.iiit@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am Venkatesh Potluri, a research intern at Microsoft Research, India
> and I work in the accessibility domain.
>
> Our team based out of Microsoft Research, India is conducting an
> online survey in an attempt to understand accessibility challenges
> faced by blind and visually impaired developers. This is an anonymous
> online survey available at this link:
> https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/visual-studio-accessibility
>
> After the survey, participants may choose to volunteer to participate
> in further detailed interviews by sending an email to the address
> mentioned in the survey.
>
> Insights from this survey will be passed on to the product team of
> visual Studio with recommendations to make it more accessible.
> If you are visually impaired and are a developer or just code out of
> your own interest, request you to kindly take part in the survey.
>
> Also, Please feel free to share this information with any VI developer
> that you know.
>
> I look forward to your feedback.
>
> Thank you and best regards,
> Venkatesh Potluri
> Research intern, Microsoft Research India
> http://www.venkateshpotluri.me
>
>
>