发明一种设备，你插入usb端口，它基本上是一块“橡胶”，它会自我修改，显示你的代码，让盲人阅读而不是听到它，怎么样?

我在大底特律盲人协会工作了三年，经营一个专为盲人访问而设计的BBS，并与许多盲人用户合作，以更好地满足他们的需求，并与新盲人用户合作，让他们适应当时可用的硬件和软件产品。如果不出意外的话，我至少学会了阅读盲文，以避免自己陷入同样的境地!

大多数盲人电脑用户和程序员使用某种屏幕阅读器。《大白鲨》尤其受欢迎。幸运的是，目前大多数主要应用程序都提供了某种形式的残疾人访问。你可能需要稍微调整你的环境来减少杂音，例如考虑在Visual Studio中禁用智能感知。

盲文显示器不太常见，而且相对昂贵得多，可以显示40或80列文本，并且可以在精确定位/标点符号很重要的情况下使用。虽然屏幕阅读器可以配置成快速读出标点符号，但很多人觉得这会分散注意力，而且在很多情况下，你更容易自己摸索。Jaws可以配置为驱动显示，因此您不必同时处理辅助应用程序。

此外，许多合法失明的用户仍有一定程度的视力。使用高对比度背景和放大功能可以帮助这些用户。

在Windows中使用ToggleKeys会让你听到当你不小心点击一个模式“caps lock”，“num lock”，“scroll lock”等键。

I know at least one Haskell programmer who uses a screen reader and who explicitly programs without using Haskell's layout rules, and instead opts to use the rather non-idiomatic, but supported {;}'s instead, because it is easier/less distracting for him to get his screen reader to read off punctuation than for him to figure out exact indentation that complies with Haskell's layout rules. On that same note, I've heard some grumbling from a couple of blind programmers about when they have to write Python.

最终，你学会了发挥自己的优势。

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.

我是一个完全失明的大学生，有过几次编程实习，所以我的答案将基于这些。我使用windows xp作为我的操作系统，“大白鲨”用合成语音来阅读屏幕上出现的内容。对于java编程，我使用eclipse，因为它是一个可访问的功能齐全的IDE。

根据我的经验，使用SWT作为GUI工具包的java程序比使用Swing的程序更容易访问，这就是为什么我远离netbeans的原因。对于任何。net编程，我都使用visual studio 2005，因为它是我实习时使用的标准版本，使用Jaws和一组脚本非常容易访问，这些脚本是为了使表单设计器等东西更容易访问而开发的。

对于C和c++编程，我使用cygwin和gcc作为我的编译器，emacs或vim作为我的编辑器，这取决于我需要做什么。我的很多实习工作都是为Z/OS编程。我使用rlogin会话通过Cygwin访问大型机上的USS子系统，并使用C3270作为我的3270模拟器访问大型机的ISPF部分。

我通常依赖于合成语音，但也有盲文显示。我发现我通常用语音工作得更快，但在标点符号很重要且复杂的情况下使用盲文显示。这方面的例子是带有大量嵌套括号和JCL的if语句，其中标点符号非常重要。

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我正在cygwin http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net下使用Emacspeak，我不确定这是否可以用作编程编辑器，因为它似乎有点反应不太好，但我还没有查看任何配置选项。

我认为这在使用结对编程原理的极限编程中会很有效。如果你是为盲人开发软件，那么谁会比那些真正了解业务需求的人更适合做这个软件呢，所以我认为这一点都不牵强。

至于写代码，除非有某种反馈，否则我认为一个人可能会在语法上挣扎。音频反馈可能会有所帮助。

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……