[HN Gopher] Ask HN: How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?
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       Ask HN: How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?
        
       Disclaimer: Not myself, but a good friend of mine is suffering from
       rapid vision degradation and will be fully blind within a few
       months. I want to do what I can to help them prepare. Anything from
       software and tool suggestions to general workflow and tips would
       all be very much appreciated, thanks!
        
       Author : MathCodeLove
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2022-02-14 22:20 UTC (39 minutes ago)
        
       | bruce343434 wrote:
       | Interesting and all-time top ranking thread:
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       | "Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I
       | prepare?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980
        
         | MathCodeLove wrote:
         | Oh nice! Thanks!
        
       | jll29 wrote:
       | Emacs + Braille mode: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BrailleMode
       | 
       | All the best for your friend's health!
        
       | tristor wrote:
       | I would highly suggest that your friend contact the National
       | Federation of the Blind. They have a Computer Science Council,
       | and a mailing list at
       | https://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org which is
       | full of Blidn technologists who have been able to be effective at
       | work and in life through the use of assistive technology of
       | various stripes. This is a great place to find information.
       | 
       | I have two very close friends who are Blind, one is an SRE and
       | the other is a data scientist, both use different types of
       | assistive technology but have found that Linux and MacOS tend to
       | work better than Windows, partly due to the availability and
       | usefulness of the command line which is a better UI for a Blind
       | user than a GUI. There are now fantastic screen readers which are
       | free and/or open source available on these OSes.
        
       | johnx5c wrote:
       | On a related note, does anyone have suggestions for an engineer
       | who will have to use his hands less and less over time?
        
       | sliken wrote:
       | Switch to Emacs immediately. Emacs speak is extremely useful, and
       | since Emacs can do anything (email, web, usenet, chat, edit docs,
       | etc. etc. etc.) once you learn the keystrokes for forward/back
       | word/sentence/paragraph/page/chapter it makes life MUCH easier.
       | I'm not blind, but was a member of a linux user group who got
       | asked to help out. I ended up installing and configuring it for
       | the user, who was a grad student at the local university.
        
       | samwillis wrote:
       | This is a good old thread on the topic:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21898537
        
         | MathCodeLove wrote:
         | Thank you!
        
       | nthitz wrote:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22918980 and more
       | https://hn.algolia.com/?q=blind
        
         | MathCodeLove wrote:
         | Thank you!
        
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