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

Kompetenzzentrum Digitale Barrierefreiheit · 11.2K views · 2022-04-07 · 7:09

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Overview

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.

On Hacker News

HN uses it as the go-to example of how blind developers work, including the very fast screen reader speech.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2024–2026

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UX & UI designTesting, debugging & developer tools
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asimovDev · 2026-05 · Recommendation

[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

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dyauspitr · 2026-06 · Reference

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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lioeters · 2024-04 · Reference

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.

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