A new approach towards visual programming for the blinds

Visual user interfaces have left blind programmers that were able to perform programming job for years in a challenging situation. This problem has especially been present in classical desktop programming due to the nature of technology used in this field. Efforts have been made to help blinds work with graphical interfaces but none of them gave a fully usable solution for blind programming professionals. To solve this issue several different approaches can be applied but only one of them can lead to generally usable solution. In this paper mentioned approaches are discussed and proposed solution is described in more detail in the form of GUIDL (Graphical User Interface Description Language) that represents a new system that would include a new description language and would enable blinds to make graphical interfaces as a part of their programs in a way that would be acceptable to not only professional programmers but also to designers and other blind computer hobbyists. The demands for this kind of system as a combination of initial ideas and results obtained by research among the blind programmers will also be presented. Finally, a formal description of proposed system and its parts including a description language as its core part will be given.