How to work on Blind Blockly

[Sethuraman]

Hi All,

 May i know how to enable blockly for blind.

 I have gone through the following link but nothing is working on the link ( https://blockly-demo.appspot.com/static/demos/accessible/index.html )

Can any body explain me how to do it locally.

[Erik Pasternak]

Hi there,

We actually are moving that demo over to an experiments repo. We found that approach didn't work very well with blind students.

Instead we've been working on adding keyboard navigation to Blockly directly in the keyboard_nav branch. That will be merging into develop after next week's release as we still have some work to do on the UI and keymappings. There's some additional accessibility research being done, especially by Lauren Milne and Stephanie Ludi, but we plan to send out a more general call for accessibility work with our October release which will include the keyboard navigation.

Cheers,

Erik

[Amber B]

Ooh, I'm really glad to hear that that's in the works! I can't wait until it's stable enough for master so we can get it into our own fork.

[Sethuraman]

Hi Is this feature enabled , Would be glad to hear if it's available 

[Mark Friedman]

If you mean the keyboard navigation feature then, yes, it is available.  To enable it, the developer of a Blockly-based app needs to include the keyboard navigation plugin.  Assuming that is done, here is the documentation for how the user would use the keyboard navigation.  Please note that that documentation has not been updated yet to indicate that keyboard navigation is only available if the developer of a Blockly-based app has included the plugin, (i.e., it's not necessarily available to all Blockly-based apps by default).

I'll also note that Google and the Blockly team are in the process of trying to improve the accessibility of Blockly.  You can read more about this effort in this post to this group and in this announcement.

-Mark

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