In this episode Dominic speaks with Jon about his experience transitioning to using a screen reader and learning to code without his vision. They discuss how some of the tooling works, things other developers can do to make their code more accessible for blind teammates, and more.

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Featuring:

• Dominic St-Pierre – Website, X
• Jon Calhoun – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• How A Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio
• Orca Screen Reader

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!