有一次我遇到了Sam Hartman，他是一个著名的Debian开发人员，从2000年开始，他是盲人。在这次采访中，他谈到了Linux用户的可访问性。他使用Debian和Gnome -orca作为屏幕阅读器，它与Gnome一起工作，并且“在Iceweasel/Firefox和Libreoffice方面做得相对不错”。

在谈到编程时，他说:

虽然[地精-虎鲸]会说地精终端，但它真的不够好 说终端程序，我很舒服地使用它。所以，我跑了 Emacspeak包。在其中，我运行Emacs 在终端模拟器中，我倾向于运行Screen。为了增加 有趣的是，我经常在内部运行额外的Emacs实例 屏幕。

harald van Breederode是荷兰著名的Oracle DBA专家、培训师和演讲者，他是一位盲人。他的博客为视障人士提供了一些有用的建议。

请记住，“失明”是一系列的情况——有一些人在法律上是盲人，他们可以阅读一个非常大的显示器或在放大设备的帮助下，还有一些人根本没有视力。我记得大学时的一个同学有一种可以放大书本的特殊设备，还有一种可以放大屏幕一部分的特殊软件。她正在努力完成大学学业，因为她的视力越来越差，几乎要完全消失了。

编程也有一系列的需求——有些人擅长写出大量的代码，有些人更擅长看大局和架构。我可以想象，考虑到屏幕界面所施加的难度，失明可能会增强你获得大局的能力……

我是个盲人，在过去的12年里一直是一名程序员。目前，我是一名高级架构师，在Sapient公司(一家总部位于剑桥的咨询公司，创建基于web和基于厚客户端的企业解决方案)工作。 我使用了几个屏幕阅读器，但大多数情况下都坚持使用Jaws用于窗口和NVDA。

I have mostly worked on the Microsoft platform and visual studio as my environment. I also use tools like the MS Sql enterprise studio and others for DB access, network monitoring etc. I tried to spend some time with emacspeak but since my work was mostly based on the MS platform, never really spent a lot of time there. I have also spent a couple of years working on C++ on linux - mostly used notepad or visual studio on windows for all the coding and then samba to share files with the linux environment. Also used borland C for some experimental stuff. Have recently been playing around with python, which as other people have noted above is particularly unfriendly for a blind user because it is written using indentation as the nesting mechanism. Having said that, NVDA, the most popular open source screen reader is written completely using python and some of the commiters on that project are themself blind. A particularly interesting question I get frequently asked as an architect is how do I deal with diagrams - UML and visio and rational rose etc. Visio is probably the most accessible diagraming tool out there. I was able to write jaws scripts to read rational rose diagrams for me. I've used a tool called T-dub (technical diagram understanding for the blind) developed by some german university for accessing UML 2.0 diagrams. Have used a java-based ugly tool called magic draw for doing model-driven development and was a commiter on the androMDA project and helped develop the .Net code generator from a UML model.

In general, I find that I thrive most in a team environment where I can work on my strengths. For example, while a diagram is extremely useful to communicate/document a design, the actual design process involves a lot of thinking and brainstorming and when the design has been thought out, one of your team mates can help you quickly put together a neatly drawn picture out of it. People incorrectly mis-construe the above to be lack of independence or ability while I see this as pure inter-dependence -- as in I am sure that the team mate alone could never have come up with that design on his/her own and in-turn, if I depend on him to document the design, so be it. Most hurdles I face are tool-based inaccessibility. For example all oracle products have been progressively declining in accessibility over the years (shame on them) and a team environment basically allows me an extra layer of defense against these over and above my screen readers and custom scripts.

我是盲人，几个月来我一直在使用VINUX(一个基于Ubuntu的linux发行版)和SODBEANS(一个netbeans版本，带有一个名为SAPPY的插件，添加了TTS支持)。 这个解决方案工作得很好，但有时我更喜欢启动Win XP和NVDA来启动FireFox上的许多页面，因为当你试图打开超过3个FireFox窗口时，Vinux工作得不太好……

我不记得来源，但我听说过/读过一种可听语法“着色”的形式-这样，而不是字符串赋值被读为

Foo = quote这是一个字符串引号

字符串部分将用不同的音高或声音来读，以使元素的分离更清晰。