Teaching Programming for Blinds: A Review

Many people do not have prior knowledge about what blinds can or cannot do as programmers. In fact, they can be efficiently competing with sighted peers when they have the required assistive tools. This paper provides a systematic review of published literature related to teaching programming for blinds between 1975 and 2013. Twenty-five reviewed papers from journals, conference proceedings, and scholarly databases formed the bases for this review. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time to make a systematic review of literature relating to teaching programming for blinds. This review categorizes the literature based on different areas of interest, while providing quantitative analysis of publications based on their type and year of publication. Finally, future research venues are explored according to the gaps found in reviewed studies.