The following message is from Joseph Lee, who submitted this announcement to
the NVDA mailing list. It concerns lessons for those who may be interested in
software development for NVDA.
[nvda] Now availible: essential lessons from NVDA Development basics
Dear NVDA community,
In 2017 I created a subgroup in NVDA users list designed to teach NVDA
development basics to potential developers. Due to restrictions placed at that
time,
the lessons archive was only visible to subgroup members.
After feedback from members, I’d like to announce community-wide release of
these lessons on my website (a text file but formatted in Markdown format),
which can be found at:
https://www.josephsl.net/files/nvdadocs/nvdadevlearning.txt
Important things to note:
list of 4 items
1. Some unit 1 and 2 lessons are not included. Unit 1 talks about how to fetch
NVDA source code, compile it, and run it NVDA from source for the first
time, all of which can be found in NVDA’s source code readme (or on GitHub).
2. The development subgroup is currently learning unit 5 (code contributions).
3. Some of what I say in these lessons might be out of date. I’ll eventually
put up a repo on my personal GitHub account that folks can clone and make
changes to (and submit as a pull request).
4. The content in there should cover majority of development scenarios. As of
now, browse mode, display model, and character processing are major lessons
missing from unit 4.
list end
P.S. If you are looking for a sample material as to how one would do technical
writing, or incorporate this lessons archive somewhere in teaching people
about screen reader history and what not, I hereby give you permission to do so
(attribution is what I ask, and if you can, donation to NV Access is highly
appreciated).
Thank you.
Cheers,
Joseph
_._,_._,_
[nvda] Now availible: essential lessons from NVDA Development basics
Dear NVDA community,
In 2017 I created a subgroup in NVDA users list designed to teach NVDA
development basics to potential developers. Due to restrictions placed at that
time,
the lessons archive was only visible to subgroup members.
After feedback from members, I’d like to announce community-wide release of
these lessons on my website (a text file but formatted in Markdown format),
which can be found at:
https://www.josephsl.net/files/nvdadocs/nvdadevlearning.txt
Important things to note:
list of 4 items
1. Some unit 1 and 2 lessons are not included. Unit 1 talks about how to fetch
NVDA source code, compile it, and run it NVDA from source for the first
time, all of which can be found in NVDA’s source code readme (or on GitHub).
2. The development subgroup is currently learning unit 5 (code contributions).
3. Some of what I say in these lessons might be out of date. I’ll eventually
put up a repo on my personal GitHub account that folks can clone and make
changes to (and submit as a pull request).
4. The content in there should cover majority of development scenarios. As of
now, browse mode, display model, and character processing are major lessons
missing from unit 4.
list end
P.S. If you are looking for a sample material as to how one would do technical
writing, or incorporate this lessons archive somewhere in teaching people
about screen reader history and what not, I hereby give you permission to do so
(attribution is what I ask, and if you can, donation to NV Access is highly
appreciated).
Thank you.
Cheers,
Joseph
_._,_._,_
--
David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist
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