Are there any blind developers? How do they code?

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[Austin S. Hemmelgarn]

Speaking from experience (not as a blind person, but as someone who has actually taken the time to learn to use a screen reader), it's actually not all that hard to code using a screen reader. Using a modal editor like vi helps, but even without that it's not hugely difficult.

I also know a couple of people who use braille display hardware and make extensive use of ed for text editing, though none of them are coders.

[Wali Ullah]

I've heard of a blind economics teacher who developed an app. He was a huge fan of Apple because of it's support and accessibility features for disabled people. It's still a mystery to me that how did he code though... 🤔

[Michiel Hendriks]

They use screen readers: cnbc.com/2018/04/24/this-blind-26-...

And yes, the screen readers read at a really high speed.

[Brad]

I read an interesting interview about a blind software engineer a few years back and wanted to post it here again:

vincit.fi/en/software-development-...