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How A Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio

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What it is

Saqib Shaikh, a blind developer, shows how he writes and debugs code in Visual Studio 2017 using a screen reader. The short demo shows an expert doing ordinary developer tasks.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it, especially to developers losing their sight, as a concrete demonstration of coding with text-to-speech.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “I found it very interesting how a programmer who can't see codes using text-to-speech”

    Shows how a blind programmer codes with text-to-speech

    dejawu, 2019-08 · Recommendation · in “What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?”

  2. “I recommend watching (and listening to) this talk by Saqib Shaikh”

    Blind developer coding and debugging with a screen reader

    DCRichards, 2020-04 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?”

  3. “this short video of a blind software developer using Visual Studio. Maybe it'll give you some idea”

    Short video of a blind developer using Visual Studio

    ChrisRR, 2020-04 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?”

  4. “I think it is a good demonstration of an expert doing typical developer activities.”

    Expert blind developer doing typical developer activities

    lzybkr, 2021-10 · Recommendation · in “How does apt render its fancy progress bar?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: screen reader, blind developer, visual studio, accessibility, text-to-speech

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