I'm curious to know if anyone has ever worked with a blind programmer before. Perhaps a non-blind programmer who became blind later in life? How does it affect their work? Any stories?
A lecturer at my university became blind earlier in life. I completed an assignment for an audio-programming class of his that was to create a video game that had no visual component and was played by sound alone. It ended up fire-rescue game where the place was said to be full of smoke and you heard directional sounds from various fire sources and trapped people.
The latest Courant Institute newsletter has a nice article about a blind CS grad student: <a href="http://cims.nyu.edu/newsletters/Spring2012.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://cims.nyu.edu/newsletters/Spring2012.pdf</a>
It discusses several apps he is working on that are aimed at the visually impaired, including a Braille keyboard for iOS.