How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]

I always wondered how someone could use text-to-speech effectively, especially with a programming language full of symbols with long names such as 'semi-colon', 'underscore', 'left parenthesis' etc. The answer it seems is to speed up the voice tenfold! Honestly incredible he's fine-tuned his other senses well enough to be able to code at a reasonable speed again.

Here is a link to the Stack Overflow answer mentioned in the intro portion of the video:<p>&quot;How can you program if you&#x27;re blind?&quot; | <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;453758" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;453758</a>

I met two blind programmers. The process they used was exactly how it&#x27;s described in this video.<p>What was odd was that:<p>1 - they were given the worst place in the room: no windows, literally facing a wall. Took some time to realize why they didn&#x27;t complain.<p>2 - The computer had monitors. Then I learnt that Windows (don&#x27;t know what version it was) wouldn&#x27;t work it no monitor was attached.

I imagine many would benefit if we had a smart developer assistant where it could have a higher level understanding of programming.<p>&quot;Jarvis import library foo&quot; - could be said from anywhere in file<p>&quot;Jarvis jump to file bar.c&quot;<p>&quot;Jarvis declare var current temperature equals zero&quot; - var currentTemperature = 0<p>&quot;Jarvis write for enumeration on var word over var name list&quot;<p>&quot;Jarvis build and run&quot; or simply &quot;Jarvis run&quot;<p>By the way, I know many people don&#x27;t like to talk to a computer, can&#x27;t imagine how it could be faster than typing, etc. However, I believe that once an assistant is done right, more than a few people would be converts.

This is great. I always wondered how blind developers managed to navigate IDEs at a decent pace.<p>I can&#x27;t help but wonder how Saqib Shaikh navigates through log files for large applications though. Log files usually generate a large amount of noise in the form of time stamps, thread names, log levels, stack traces, etc. that overtime I&#x27;ve learned to &quot;scan&quot; instead of read to find what I am looking for. I would love to see a video of him navigating through a log file to see how he does it. Maybe just lots of string searches?

Damn, he works faster than me... the only thing I could have done faster was removing the &quot;<p>Edit: wrote semi colon instead of &quot; double quote

In my first developer job, I worked with a blind developer. Back then it was green screens, ksh, vi, and a screen reader. That was over twenty years ago.<p>I&#x27;m surprised the process is very much the same today as it was then.

What screenreader is he using?

why can&#x27;t we code like this &quot;remove that comma on line 3&quot; or &quot;move line 4 inside the braces above&quot;? surely it would benefit everyone?<p>you could even ask &quot;which lines have if statements?&quot;<p>for something like this wouldn&#x27;t you be talking to an AST rather than a text editor?

How is Xcode for this?

Visual Studio seems like an odd choice...