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How do blind and hand injured programmers cope with their work?

• extra88 11y ago
  Screen readers and/or refreshable Braille display for the former, Dragon NaturallySpeaking for the latter.
  • robotkilla 11y ago
    Correct - its a slower process but it can be done. Programming is all in your head, how you get it into the computer is irrelevant (recall programmers used to use hole punches on paper). I suspect that we'll have non-invasive mind to computer interfacing before my hands give out anyway.
  • abalashov 11y ago
    Indeed, but isn't the economic value of a competent programmer tied up in speed and motor efficiency as well as the domain knowledge? How does that equation change with disability, I wonder? My personal sense was that if my hands or my eyes ever became useless (e.g. RSI, worsening eyestrain issues), I'm finished.