This thread touched off an idea for a journalism piece that I think could work in something like The Atlantic.
I bounced it off of my new writing partner[0] and she's interested in collaborating on it. If you're in software and you know a blind person that's working on something difficult, high impact, or otherwise noteworthy please reach out to me. It would be great to chat with them. The more that society appreciates the blind and understands their day-to-day the better it will be accommodated.
[0] She's the former Sr Editor of The Walrus (essentially Canada's The New Yorker), so she's quite good.
If you're using a smart phone, and it works, you're using code blind people wrote. I worked with many very excellent software engineers back in my days of writing network infrastructure code. Some just happened to be blind.
Code is plain text, and development environments can be navigated with keyboards. If I were to suggest that a blind developer needed my help, I would have something thrown at me. Luckily, the aim is not so good.
I bounced it off of my new writing partner[0] and she's interested in collaborating on it. If you're in software and you know a blind person that's working on something difficult, high impact, or otherwise noteworthy please reach out to me. It would be great to chat with them. The more that society appreciates the blind and understands their day-to-day the better it will be accommodated.
[0] She's the former Sr Editor of The Walrus (essentially Canada's The New Yorker), so she's quite good.