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by em-bee 2547 days ago
>> The argument that a visually impaired coder doesn't already have an IDE that can detect spaces used for indentation automatically is impossible to refute.

this reply was killed (probably for good reason) but i want to respond anyways:

there are no IDEs for visually impaired developers. at least i could not find any. all i found was workarounds and extensions. so that supposedly impossible to refute point is hereby refuted.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/codetalk-rethi...

sure it is possible to add such features but the market for this is by no means mature, and it is not a given that a developer will have these tools available for their use.