> Not to be stubborn about it, but wouldn't you agree that while you can certainly be effective with screen readers, that in general it's (or can be) less con

> Not to be stubborn about it, but wouldn't you agree that while you can certainly be effective with screen readers, that in general it's (or can be) less convenient than "normal" computer usage and comes with some downsides? Of course. Vision is a higher-bandwidth medium than speech or Braille. But you don't always need all of that bandwidth. And, at least in my experience, sighted people tend to underestimate how well a blind person can compensate for their impairment, in this case by being really good at using a screen reader. That's why I replied the way I did. Sorry if I came off as too accusing. BTW, I'm not even an especially skilled screen reader user. I have enough sight to read the screen up close with largish fonts, and I used computers that way for a long time before I started routinely using anything resembling a modern screen reader. (I did use early screen readers as a child in school, but didn't have access to them at home.) Even now, I do my programming visually. But make no mistake, there are blind programmers who are very productive programming with a screen reader; I'm just not one of them, at least not yet. > I found it very hard to get a screen reader running on Linux :-/ Unfortunately, IMO the best screen readers are on Windows.