[Brajeshwar]

Recently, I tele-interviewed a developer and got him as a consultant, judged based on his skills and his work. I didn't realize he was blind until it came to light that the blind developer in the team was the one I interviewed! Good Developers are good, no matter what.

Prior to that, I also got 2 disabled interns - they are hard of hearing and verbal speaking. I got them working for 6 months, after which they got full-time jobs elsewhere. They were usually present in the 30+ team workshops and meet-ups that I do. I had to slow down, express more expressively with hands, etc. and things went pretty good. They did always comes back to me at the end, picking on few missing parts that I need to elaborate.

I also had a selfish motive - I wanted to learn sign language. I was able to understand them better but I think I need professional training to be proficient doing the sign language myself.

btw, this is all in India, a place where accessibility, disability-enabled stuffs are an after-thought, sometimes totally ignored.