Hello everybody,
I am a researcher from the IDEA Lab at the University of Michigan. We are
conducting a research study to understand how blind, low-vision, visually
impaired (BLVI) and deafblind developers customize VS Code and use VS Code's various accessibility features.
We would greatly appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete a short survey and share your experience and customization preferences with us.
Link to the survey: https://blvi.dev/discoverability-survey
To take part in the survey, you should have used VS Code previously and have some
proficiency with programming.
We thank you in advance for your time and valuable input!
This research is approved by the University of Michigan’s institutional review board.
Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions.
Please note that this research is not affiliated with or endorsed by
Microsoft.
Best,
Sreelakshmi S B
Researcher, IDEA Lab, University of Michigan
Comments
This looks super interesting
I like this research direction. Not sure if a lot of work is done on customisation workflows of BLVI developers. All the best!
Move to Trash
Subject is the only customization that I make to Visual Studio Code. Not a native application, requires using its own commands that don't even integrate well with VoiceOver or macOS, and last time I tried it I couldn't even find a way to move the input focus to the code text area, so it's just garbage to me compared to TextMate which is actually fully accessible and quite usable even if it lacks support for the Language Server Protocol. Even if it worked for me, the forced Microsoft telemetry would be enough to drive me away.