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

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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.

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

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3 comments from Hacker News

@dyauspitr2026 · in “Why removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds”

That reminds me of the blind Microsoft developer that uses a screen reader at a very high speed to code ▶ this video

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@asimovDev2026 · in “New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence”

▶ this 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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@lioeters2024 · in “Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)”

That's odd, the YouTube URL still works for me. Here's another link to the same video: ▶ this 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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