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    <p>I'm up dating my answer with my experiences. I bought a refurbished first gen Nexus 7 to try and learn Android programming. Installing the Android SDK with the bundled Eclipse was completely accessible. I was also able to enable accessibility on my Nexus 7 with no sited help. Enabling developer settings on the Nexus was also fully accessible. I was able to create an Android project using Eclipse with no problems. I was unable to use the graphical layout editor to add Widgets to a layout, although I was able to edit the XML to create a button with no issues. It looks like layouts are doable, you will just have to reference the docs for proper XML a lot. I created a method to be called when the button was clicked with a for loop so I could test debugging. I debugged the application on my Nexus and set a breakpoint in the body of the for loop. I was able to use standard Eclipse functions to step by line once the breakpoint was hit and view variable values. So far Android accessibility is looking good for the standard Android SDK. I am planning on testing out Android Studio and will update my answer with the results.</p> <p>A long thread on this can be found at <a href="http://www.freelists.org/post/programmingblind/Is-Android-Programming-Accessible" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.freelists.org/post/programmingblind/Is-Android-Programming-Accessible</a> What I've gathered from it is that accessibility can be enabled with little to no sighted help. When I tried enabling talkback it made the emulator unusably slow although this was over a year ago so maybe things have gotten better? I'm a blind programmer and know Eclipse is accessible with Jaws so he should be able to program with either an IDE or command line and a text editor. I haven't researched this but if the emulator is slow maybe another option would be to run an x86 build of Android in VMWare player? A screen reader written by google employees can be found at <a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/10/talkback-open-source-screenreader-for.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/10/talkback-open-source-screenreader-for.html</a> and one written by someone else can be found at <a href="http://spielproject.info/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://spielproject.info/</a></p>
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