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!!Con 2016 - How I Code and Use a Computer at 1,000 WPM!! By Sina Bahram

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Sina Bahram demonstrates how he uses a screen reader at extremely high speeds to navigate interfaces and write code.

How I Code and Use a Computer at 1,000 WPM!! By Sina Bahram I use a computer very differently than most people, because I'm blind. When I'm surfing the web, tweeting, checking email, reading the news, and writing code, I'm doing so because a program called a screen reader is reading me what's on the screen. I happen to listen to it read me this text at a thousand words per minute! Join me in listening to how I experience some common user interfaces. Yes, I'll slow it down for you. I also have a challenge for everyone in the audience. Can you get through a day only using the keyboard? What about not looking at your screen? Help us caption & translate this video! amara.org/v/KWNs/

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yesenadamon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: Is anyone here visually disabled?”

…get through a day only using the keyboard? What about not looking at your screen? Sina Bahram is an accessibility consultant, researcher, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Prime Access Consulting (PAC), an accessibility firm whose clients include high-tech startups, fortune 1000 companies, and both private and nationally-funded museums. Talk: link to this video Text copied from this page: link…

yesenadamon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017)”

…n you get through a day only using the keyboard? What about not looking at your screen? Sina Bahram is an accessibility consultant, researcher, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Prime Access Consulting (PAC), an accessibility firm whose clients include high-tech startups, fortune 1000 companies, and both private and nationally-funded museums. link to this video…

jonah-archiveon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Let's Bring Spacer GIFs Back”

I recommend that everyone go check out Sian Bahram’s 2016 talk on computing while blind. At around 6:30 he specifically addresses how inaccessible HN is to a visually impaired user: link to this video

jonah-archiveon Hacker News • Recommends

On “For blind internet users, the fix can be worse than the flaws”

I would recommend that everyone go check out Sian Bahram’s 2016 talk on computing while blind. At around 6:30 he specifically addresses how inaccessible HN is to a visually impaired user: link to this video

jonah-archiveon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Apple’s app review prevents developer from submitting fix to game for the blind”

Here's a talk by Sina Bahram from five years ago -- at around 6:30 he specifically addresses how inaccessible HN is to a visually impaired user. Nothing that he mentioned has been addressed: link to this video

exikyuton Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today?”

…have sadly been lost because the auth= value had expired (eg in the case of a weeks-old tab) or because I was on bad 4G on my phone, but the UI state has no bearing on the network response. Something else that I'd be very happy to put effort into, after being told how to approach the problem :), would be to make the site screen-reader-accessible: link to this video (size-XL volume warning - unfortunately the speaker volume is like 5% of the screen reader volume). A longer-term project that I also think would also be very useful would be to implement OAuth2, so that users would be able to safely attach external logins to their accounts without needing to supply their actual user passwords (which thankf…

exikyuton Hacker News • Mentions

On “Tell HN: You can see your vouched and flagged items”

I lost the video a while back, then finally re-found it. Here's a blind person showing how Hacker News sounds over JAWS: link to this video (Headphone warning: the volume is unfortunately all over the place, the screen reader is way too loud and the speaker volume is way too soft.) TL;DR, the page design places so much emphasis on visual table layout that it doesn't incorporate a single <h1> or <h2> anywhere , and it is effectively impossible to read the site rapidly without unconditionally listening to all the Hacker News. Page has 224 links. Hacker News visited Unlabeled graphic Graphic y18 link Hacker News link new vertical bar link past vertical bar link comments vertical bar link ask vertical bar…