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I didn't mean to come off as railing against the prejudices of the world. I don't even know if I'm running up against a prejudice in every interview. That's wha
by kolanos 11y ago
I didn't mean to come off as railing against the prejudices of the world. I don't even know if I'm running up against a prejudice in every interview. That's what I'm trying to figure out and hopefully solve.
As far as tools, I use a screen reader. I kind of have tunnel vision in my left eye, so I don't always see notifications or pop-ups, so I use a screen reader to alert me to those. OSX's Voiceover is generally quite good, although I've found it getting increasingly buggy since Yosemite. I hear JAWS is quite good on Windows as well.
I lean heavily on the command line, preferring CLI tools to GUI ones whenever they're available. I'm a Vim user and have pretty much customized every aspect to help me. I do primarily Python development, which most people would consider quite difficult given the white space but with the right Vim plugins this can easily be managed. If there's any blind engineers out there who need advice when it comes to dev tools I'm more than happy to help.
As for blind peer groups, I don't know. If there are any out there I'd very much be interested. And if not, maybe I should start one.