[emilga]

Here’s a blind programmer using Visual Studio with a ridiculously fast TTS: https://youtu.be/94swlF55tVc

[saagarjha]

I'm not blind, but I've tested some of my apps for VoiceOver and it's just utterly unusable with a "reasonable" speed. You have to pretty much set it to your reading speed for it to be useful, and that happens to be significantly faster than most people are comfortable speaking.

[liability]

Start slow, and build up your tolerance to it overtime. If you try to jump into the deep end, you'll just make yourself disappointed.

[saagarjha]

I'm reasonably good at listening to sped-up audio, personally, so this wasn't really an issue for me. I was just providing anecdotal reasoning of why TTS users may set their audio speed to something that might sound unreasonable: it takes forever to navigate the interface otherwise.

[daenz]

This makes me emotional.

[v64]

Same. It really makes you realize what we take for granted as sighted developers. I can't imagine what the learning curve was like for him, as he lost his sight at age 7, long before many of these accessibility technologies existed. [1]

[1] https://news.microsoft.com/apac/features/saqib-shaikh-on-tec...

[ilamont]

Yes, it was like this video (scroll ahead to 1 minute mark).

[netcraft]

Thank you for sharing that, was super interesting.