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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Jun 30, 2016 4:54PM

I just realized my query string in my previous message includes "OS X". I don't know if that's what I actually searched on or not. Anyhoo,

Brian Lovely
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> On Jun 30, 2016, at 9:14 AM, Lovely, Brian (CONT) < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> I personally do not know the answer to Shankar's question, but I thought Google might. I got a lot of partial matches to my query of "osx code editor that is compatible with jaws," with "jaws" being both one of the most important parts of the query and one of the most omitted from results. I did find this however: http://www.sas.com/en_us/home.html
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> I don't know anything about this editor, this Google query response was the first time I have heard of it. Here's a quote from their documentation:
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> "SAS Studio 3.1 has been tested against the accessibility standards for electronic information technology that were adopted by the U.S. Government under Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (2008 draft proposal initiative update). It was also tested against Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 levels A and AA, part of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C). For more information about the accessibility of this product, send e-mail to <EMAIL REMOVED> or call SAS Technical Support.
> For best results, use JAWS with Firefox on Windows 7 and VoiceOver with Safari on OS X."
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> Just for a lark, I opened their home page in Chrome, opened the developer tools, and ran the aXe accessibility analyzer. aXe found 19 violations, 13 of which were "links must have discernable text". The rest were color contrast and video elements missing captions and audio descriptions. Physician, heal thyself!
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> Brian Lovely
> Digital Accessibility Team
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of shankar shan
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 10:09 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: [WebAIM] CODE EDITORS
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> DEAR FRIENDS, GREETINGS.
> AS FOR THE SUBJECT LINE SAYS, CAN SOME ONE SUGGEST THE BEST CODE EDITORS WITH JAWS?
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> I WAS USING NOTEPAD PLUS, BUT, IN THE MENU BAR, SOME OF THE HTML AND PHP CODES ARE NOT DISPLAYED HENCE, ALLWAYS I HAVE TO DEPENDS ON MANUAL CODING.
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> i WAS ASKED ONE OF MY SIGHTED FRIEND, HE SUGGESTED ME TO GO WITH SUBLIME TEXT EDITOR, BUT, THE SUBLIME IS NOT ACCESSIBLE WIT SCREEN READERS.
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> HOPE SOME EXPERTS WILL HELP ME.
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