THE VIDEO SHELF · accessible programming
How A Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio
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 HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it, especially to developers losing their sight, as a concrete demonstration of coding with text-to-speech.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Coding Tech
- Topic
- accessible programming
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 9
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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On the other side of this, I found it very interesting how a programmer who can't see codes using text-to-speech: [VIDEO]
dejawu on Hacker News · 2019-08
In What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?I recommend watching (and listening to) this talk by Saqib Shaikh, a blind developer using Visual Studio and how we codes and debugs with his screen reader [VIDEO]
DCRichards on Hacker News · 2020-04
In Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?I'm reminded of this short video of a blind software developer using Visual Studio. Maybe it'll give you some idea [VIDEO]
ChrisRR on Hacker News · 2020-04
In Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
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