[SilasX]

>Making whitespace-sensitive syntax, like in Python & Haskell, optional syntactic sugar for explicit brackets & separators.

That shouldn't matter with an IDE or plugin. If static analysis can identify the blocks -- and it has to! -- the screen reader can just read it as if it had your preferred block notation rather than noting the whitespace.

[geofft]

That's usually true but a lot of code in the middle of being edited isn't syntactically valid (a common special case is a file in the middle of a merge conflict). So you need some way of being able to accept any input and represent it usefully, even if you couldn't execute it.

[simion314]

You also need to read coding books, documentation examples and webpages, so having to use an IDE is not the best solution.

[SilasX]

Seems like the real problem is the lack of interoperability between a special coding parser and arbitrary snippets of online code.

[kd0amg]

Does that mean you need a screen reader that knows about whatever programming language you use?