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How a Blind Developer Codes with a Screen Reader

Confreaks · Talk · 13 min · 2016 · YouTube title: !!Con 2016 - How I Code and Use a Computer at 1,000 WPM!! By Sina Bahram
Why it's here

HN commenters repeatedly share it because it is an eye-opening look at screen-reader use, and because at about 6:30 it addresses how inaccessible Hacker News itself is.

What it covers

A short !!Con 2016 talk by blind developer Sina Bahram on how he uses a computer and writes code with a screen reader at about 1,000 words per minute. He plays how common interfaces sound and challenges the audience to go a day using only the keyboard.