Great and very inspiring story. Made my Saturday 200% better - seriously :)
We Hired a Blind Coder
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#12Great and very inspiring story. Made my Saturday 200% better - seriously :)
Came here to say exactly this. What a treat, thanks for sharing the awesome story!
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#13I was hired by blind developer once. He didn't discriminate me by my sight.
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#14Great and very inspiring story. Made my Saturday 200% better - seriously :)
Thanks for the kind words! Appreciate it :)
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#15Nice post, but I was kind of shocked by this part: "A question going through your head is probably: Did we underpay him?"
Seriously? What kind of human beings do you think your readers are? Did anyone here really think about that while reading the story?
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#16We contract a blind accessibility consultant to help us evaluate all of our websites (and we have a lot...) and educate us on best practices for making our sites easier to navigate. One of the best choices that we ever made. We spend a lot of time on getting it right in our sites and have spent many hours in NVDA & VoiceOver with our eyes closed. It's unfortunate how poor the experience still is on most websites and…
How does this affect the bottom line? Is this a financially good practice? Or merely a socailly good practice?
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#17Nice post, but I was kind of shocked by this part: "A question going through your head is probably: Did we underpay him?" Seriously? What kind of human beings do you think your readers are? Did anyone here really think about that while reading the story?
The readers would not have to be rotten human beings ... merely non-naive. He didn't suggest we readers _wanted_ him underpaid. Just that we might wonder if they did. Many _would_ underpay him, so it's a reasonable thing to wonder.
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#18We contract a blind accessibility consultant to help us evaluate all of our websites (and we have a lot...) and educate us on best practices for making our sites easier to navigate. One of the best choices that we ever made. We spend a lot of time on getting it right in our sites and have spent many hours in NVDA & VoiceOver with our eyes closed. It's unfortunate how poor the experience still is on most websites and…
How does this affect the bottom line? Is this a financially good practice? Or merely a socailly good practice?
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#19Speaking of, The Changelog #206 https://changelog.com/206/ just put out one with a blind programmer as well, "This week on the show we talk with Parham Doustdar, a blind programmer. We talked about the advantages of being a blind programmer, the tools he uses, quitting school, carving your own path, and more."
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#20Thanks for sharing this. It's very inspiring and interesting to read about solutions to the very unique problems visually impaired coders face.
Does make me wonder about non-text based input / code display methods that can help here.