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		Retr0spectrum on June 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We Hired a Blind Coder I can't imagine what it would be like to use a computer in general, without sight. However, most programming resources are in text form, so I guess it wouldn't have been too difficult (in relative terms).

pbhjpbhj on June 12, 2016 [–]

I've done a little commercial web dev so have used freely available audio-browsers. A very interesting experience.

YouTube has examples of people programming using audio output. That should help to imagine it.

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