Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
BLVDIFF: Supporting BLV Developers with Differential Debugging Tools. |
| Authors: |
Sedlacek, Rylan, Chandrasekar, Prashant |
| Source: |
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility; 2025, p1-4, 4p |
| Subject Terms: |
DEBUGGING, ASSISTIVE technology, SOFTWARE development tools, SOFTWARE versioning, LANGUAGE models |
| Abstract: |
Traditional tools and development environments provide little support for tracking how code changes may have introduced new errors. This lack of support forces blind and low-vision (BLV) developers to manually sift through verbose error output using screen readers. As a result, they often face significant challenges in interpreting and debugging long and unstructured error trace backs [2]. To address this, we introduce BLVDIFF, a tool that aims to address key pain points in screen reader workflows through flag-based functionality. Its primary feature is a differential (diff) debugging system that automatically tracks code changes to offer greater contextual insight during debugging. The tool also integrates a large language model (LLM) to generate clear and informative explanations of error trace backs. Together, these capabilities hope to provide support for accessible debugging, addressing a critical need in BLV developer workflows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Biomedical Index |