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A comment on Ask HN: Anyone using a “no hands” setup for programming?.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone using a “no hands” setup for programming? by Igglyboo on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @09:26AM (#9340574)
Slightly Offtopic: Does anyone use/know of a system for "no eyes" (blind) programming? Does anyone know any blind developers?
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using a “no hands” setup for programming? by sesm on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @09:30AM (#9340598)
This SO thread has some interesting answers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118984/how-can-you-progra...
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using a “no hands” setup for programming? by SwellJoe on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @09:31AM (#9340609)
Nolan Darilek is a blind developer who comments on HN occasionally about the topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ndarilek
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using a “no hands” setup for programming? by Estragon on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @04:14PM (#9343595)
Sam Hartman is an extremely competent, blind developer.

http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/06/24/people-behin-debian-sam...

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using a “no hands” setup for programming? by JoshTriplett on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @10:47AM (#9341100)
The Debian project has multiple blind developers. One serves on the Debian Technical Committee.

Useful packages include brltty (for Braille terminals), emacspeak, and orca.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using a “no hands” setup for programming? by panglott on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @10:12AM (#9340865)
I think blind programmers mostly just use ASCII braille, with standard accessibility equipment like braillers, braille notetakers, and screenreaders.
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