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How a Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio (Microsoft Build 2017)

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  • Presented by Saqib Shaikh, software engineer at Microsoft

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Saqib Shaikh demonstrates how he writes and debugs code in Visual Studio using a high-speed screen reader.

Saqib Shaikh, a developer who happens to be blind, shows how he uses Visual Studio 2017 with screen reader software for writing and debugging code. EVENT: Microsoft Build 2017 conference, which took place May 10th-12th 2017 in Seattle. SPEAKER: Saqib Shaikh PERMISSIONS: The original video was published with the Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed). CREDITS: Original video source: youtube.com/watch?v=iWXebEeGwn0 SOURCE: youtube.com/watch?v=94swlF55tVc (on Coding Tech's YouTube channel) Subtitles for the deaf or hard-of-hearing (SDH) added by Christophe Strobbe (Hochschule der Medien).

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What people say. Recommended as an eye-opening demonstration of how blind developers navigate and write code using screen readers at high speeds.

asimovDevon Hacker News • Recommends

On “New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence”

link to this 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

lioeterson Hacker News • Mentions

On “Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)”

That's odd, the YouTube URL still works for me. Here's another link to the same video: link to this video I think it's the same one you mean, his screen reader's audio is so fast it sounds like electronic blips.

dyauspitron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Why removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds”

That reminds me of the blind Microsoft developer that uses a screen reader at a very high speed to code link to this video