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How a Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio (Microsoft Build 2017)
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Saqib Shaikh, a blind developer at Microsoft, shows at Build 2017 how he writes and debugs code in Visual Studio using a screen reader. This version adds subtitles.
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HN uses it as the go-to example of how blind developers work, including the very fast screen reader speech.
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[VIDEO] my go to example of this is this talk by Saqib Shaikh (a blind software engineer at Microsoft) giving a talk about Visual Studio. Link is timestamped
Read original comment ↗That's odd, the YouTube URL still works for me. Here's another link to the same video: [VIDEO] I think it's the same one you mean, his screen reader's audio is so fast it sounds like electronic blips.
Read original comment ↗That reminds me of the blind Microsoft developer that uses a screen reader at a very high speed to code [VIDEO]
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