I used to work in adaptive skiing, mostly with visually impaired kids and adults, and met a couple of blind develoeprs and people working on screen readers and

I used to work in adaptive skiing, mostly with visually impaired kids and adults, and met a couple of blind develoeprs and people working on screen readers and other equipment. They lived in California which helped with a lot of expensive Braille and other equipment, but mostly they achieved at a high academic and industry level thru sheer determination. Academics: degrees from MIT, Berkeley, other top programs. One critical skill was to crank up their browser readers to unbelievable speeds, I couldnt understand anything at that speed. I think most of them used the emacs-speak interface from Cornell. There weren't any tools to make schematics and similar dense graphic representations approachable, tho.