alice-teacher s Digest, Vol 34, Issue 17

Fri May 24 12:22:58 EDT 2013

Hello Susan,

I am not aware of any existing fix toward making Alice accessible to legally blind students. Actually, I am not aware of any similar application (e.g. Scratch, App Inventor) that works with AT for legally blind. 

There are applications without a graphical interface that were developed from scratch to be fully accessible (e.g. Quorum ) but, again, all the amazing features provided by Alice graphical interface that help so much kids falling in love with programming are GONE!

As I was saying, I was able to successfully use Alice only with students that have low vision and many other type of disabilities. 

I hope this helps,
Daniela

Dr. Daniela Marghitu
http://eng.auburn.edu/users/marghda

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> As long as the students have some vision, it's possible. However, if the students are legally blind, which was  my case, Braille readers, etc. cannot read the animations and have a very hard time reading the code in the editing window. In this case, the software is not a good fit because the student needs to see the animation. 
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> If anybody has figured out a fix to this, I am VERY interested. We have a small population of extremely bright legally blind students who are fully mainstreamed in regular and honors classes. They want to learn how to program, but can't take my classes because I use Alice which doesn't support supportive devices. 
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> Hello,
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> I taught Alice to children with low vision. Actually I will have in July 5 students with low vision in my CS4All-Girls two residential camps.
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> Please feel free to contact me if you think I can further help.
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> Best wishes,
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> Dr. Daniela Marghitu
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>>> Subject: A few questions
>>> Date: May 22, 2013 6:01:50 AM PDT
>>> To: "don at alice.org" <don at alice.org>
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>>> Have anyone tried to implement ALICE with the visually impaired ? I teach Science to the visually impaired.
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>>> If I want to teach my own personal children about programming (14yr. old triplets and a 16 year old) Is ALICE  a good start? Where do I begin? Thanks.
>>> Connie
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> I recommend the scrollable mouse with magnification for the visually
> impaired so that they can use those features simultaneously. I taught a boy
> who was visually impaired, (he was also extremely bright), and he was quite
> successful doing programming in Alice.
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> Hope that helps.
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>> *From: *"Winters, Connie" <Connie.Winters at tsbtigers.org>
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>> *To: *"don at alice.org" <don at alice.org>
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>> Have anyone tried to implement ALICE with the visually impaired ? I teach
>> Science to the visually impaired.****
>> ** **
>> If I want to teach my own personal children about programming (14yr. old
>> triplets and a 16 year old) Is ALICE  a good start? Where do I begin?
>> Thanks.****
>> Connie****
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> Yes, I have taught Alice to visually impaired students. We use a program
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> They did fine.
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> Regards,
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>>> From: "Winters, Connie" <Connie.Winters at tsbtigers.org>
>>> Subject: A few questions
>>> Date: May 22, 2013 6:01:50 AM PDT
>>> To: "don at alice.org" <don at alice.org>
>>> 
>>> Have anyone tried to implement ALICE with the visually impaired ? I
>> teach Science to the visually impaired.
>>> 
>>> If I want to teach my own personal children about programming (14yr. old
>> triplets and a 16 year old) Is ALICE  a good start? Where do I begin?
>> Thanks.
>>> Connie
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