11K views · Apr 7, 2022 · 7:09 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2024–2026
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN uses it as the go-to example of how blind developers work, including the very fast screen reader speech.
“my go to example of this is this talk by Saqib Shaikh”HN comment, 2026
“my go to example of this is this talk by Saqib Shaikh”
Blind Microsoft engineer demos Visual Studio
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
“his screen reader's audio is so fast it sounds like electronic blips”
Blind developer's very fast screen reader audio
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.
“the blind Microsoft developer that uses a screen reader at a very high speed to code”
Blind developer codes with high-speed screen reader
That reminds me of the blind Microsoft developer that uses a screen reader at a very high speed to code this video
