How a Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio (Microsoft Build 2017)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN uses it as the go-to example of how blind developers work, including the very fast screen reader speech.
What it is
Saqib Shaikh, a blind developer at Microsoft, shows at Build 2017 how he writes and debugs code in Visual Studio using a screen reader. This version adds subtitles.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2024 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends asimovDev · 2026-05 · on “New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence”
[this video] my go to example of this is this talk by Saqib Shaikh (a blind software engineer at Microsoft) giving a talk about Visual Studio. Link is timestamped
Cites lioeters · 2024-04 · on “Interview with a blind developer on how he works (2017)”
That's odd, the YouTube URL still works for me. Here's another link to the same video: [this video] I think it's the same one you mean, his screen reader's audio is so fast it sounds like electronic blips.
Cites dyauspitr · 2026-06 · on “Why removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds”
That reminds me of the blind Microsoft developer that uses a screen reader at a very high speed to code [this video]