Empathy Ally
Coding Tech
How a blind developer codes in Visual Studio
Microsoft engineer Saqib Shaikh shows how he writes and debugs code with a screen reader at full speed.
Walk in someone's shoes
Everything a sighted person does by looking at a screen - reading email, browsing a website, filling out a form - a blind person does by listening to it. The computer reads the contents of the screen aloud, item by item, and the keyboard replaces the mouse. Whether this works smoothly or not almost always comes down to one thing: was the website, the application, or the document on the other end built to be read this way.
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First-hand perspectives
People living with blindness share how it shapes using a computer.
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Guide Dogs
Reading inaccessible documents with a screen reader
Cerys demonstrates the OCR and image-detection workarounds she uses when a PDF isn't accessible.
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James Rath
How blind people use computers
James Rath shows the screen-reader and zoom tools he relies on to use his computer.
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Molly Burke
How I use technology as a blind person
Molly Burke walks through her updated tech setup - phones, computers, and the screen readers behind them.
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Unsightly Opinions
How a blind person uses computers
Unsightly Opinions demos the screen readers and adaptive tech she uses across phones and computers.
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Unsightly Opinions
Using a computer as a blind person
Tamara demos the VoiceOver screen reader and mouse-follows-cursor setup she uses on her Mac.