I am trying to adopt the use of VS Code for Education in my undergraduate python courses. I am, however, running into a roadblock with the accessibility team. They have said that it failed accessibility with JAWS and NVDA. Where I think the biggest concern is with the Output Terminal. I have tried both screen readers and I can get it to work everywhere except the Terminal output. I have added the accessibility settings as stated in the F1 feature, but nothing has allowed the screen reader to read the output terminal. I am at a loss and hoping that someone could help me with a solution, if possible. Standards we are reviewing against are WCAG level A and level AA Success Criteria.
Have they tried pressing Shift-Alt-F2? That tends to open an accessibility buffer in the terminal and sets the browse mode for nvda and the equivalent mode in JAWS. Then you can arrow up and down in the integrated terminal
Also hitting Ctrl ` to enter the terminal
I have an in progress python course I am working on for high schoolers. It starts with accessibility setup.
I am not finding that is working. When I do the Alt - F2 or even the Shift-Alt-F2 it is not doing anything. Any other thoughts?
I love the setup in the course. However, I am looking for specific support using Visual Studio Code for Education. We are trying to use it as a way for our students to write and run their programs online versus downloading anything. I cannot seem to get the screen readers to work within the Visual Studio Code for Education Project Environment. In particular to read the output instructions. @abchatra , @benvillalobos , @jacqueline.russell, or @vritant.bhardwaj any ideas when utilizing VS Code Edu project environment for the JAWS and NVDA readers to work?
Hi Ashley, thanks so much for brining this to our attention. I will log a bug and we’ll investigate. Just to be clear, the issue is that you are not seeing any screen reader support in the Python terminal output window? Is that correct?
Yes, and it is not allowing NVDA or JAWS to go into that area. I have tried various troubleshooting methods that I found on the site. Such as these below, but nothing has seemed to work. I am hoping there is a solution so that the university will allow me to move forward with using VS Code EDU terminal in the classroom for python.
