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How A Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio

Coding Tech · 155.5K views · 2018-03-01 · 7:09

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Overview

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.

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

Recommended by 4 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2019–2023

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lzybkr · 2021-10 · Recommendation

Saqib Shaikh, a blind developer at Microsoft, gave this short talk on using Visual Studio: [VIDEO] I realize this isn't a console, but I think it is a good demonstration of an expert doing typical developer activities.

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DCRichards · 2020-04 · Recommendation

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]

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ChrisRR · 2020-04 · Recommendation

I'm reminded of this short video of a blind software developer using Visual Studio. Maybe it'll give you some idea [VIDEO]

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