Guide to Software Engineering for Visually Impaired
summary
Practical advice plus a live demo: Python code uses fastavro to serialize Avro records, a Kafka producer/consumer pair publishes and reads 100 messages read successfully and demonstrates schema evolution by adding a field with a default value so consumers remain compatible. Accessibility tactics include on-screen magnifiers, monoculars and large-font materials. Cited stats: 2.3% of US population (7.1M) has vision loss, 25% high-school dropout vs 5% national, ~70% unemployment in that cohort. Apache Kafka and Avro Yelp backend
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 5:05Unemployment Rate
- 5:33Academic Challenges
- 8:32Access to Computers
- 18:41Recap and in Conclusion
- 19:06Tool Sets
- 20:22Live Code Demo
- 21:39Writer Schema
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