Jupyter notebooks with Mac VoiceOver

By Ronja, 12 September, 2022

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Hi,

Are here anybody who has used Jupyter notebooks?

I'm a blind data science student and in our studies we have to use Jupyter on excercises etc. I tried it today first time and it is very hard.

Jupyter has API and some other tools to use it, so I think are there maybe some other way to work with Jupyter notebooks than the web-based app..?

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By mr grieves on Sunday, October 2, 2022 - 18:20

I might be wrong but doesn’t Visual Studio Code have support for this? It’s supposed to be quite accessible.
There’s also PyCharm, probably Professional, and it’s accessibility with VoiceOver has improved a lot in recent versions. Might be worth. Try, although I’d be a little less confident.

By Patrick Smyth on Sunday, October 2, 2022 - 18:20

I'd try out Google Colab, as it's quite similar to Jupyter Notebooks, but they put some more work in to make it accessible with screen readers. If you can use VS Code, though, that might be your best choice.

By Ronja on Sunday, October 2, 2022 - 18:20

Thanks for your answers.

I tried VS Code now and it is at least better than Jupyter's own browser application. It's a bit difficult to see outputs of Python code, but I print it to console and there VoiceOver can read it.

By Roland on Sunday, October 2, 2022 - 18:20

Hi, I use Google Colab occasionally even though I definitely prefer other simple and plain editors for my code.
One thing I noted is that in this particular case Google Chrome does a much better job navigating the different sections than Safari.
This is especially the case for reporting the run-time execution status of a block.

/Roland