[taddeimania]

I was incredibly lucky enough to recently do a live broadcasted interview where Parham (op) talked about his experience in tech, his country (Iran), and even showed us some of his tools to write and debug code. It was an incredible interview and can be viewed here:

https://www.livecoding.tv/parham90/videos/z8MoB-how-do-blind...

edit: you may have to fast forward about 17 minutes in to get past the intro buffer.

Also part 2 is where all of the demo stuff is:

https://www.livecoding.tv/parham90/videos/nD1Er-how-do-blind...

[mwcampbell]

At least in the part of the demo I watched, I didn't hear his screen reader. But I know that it's difficult to make a screen reader's speech output audible over a VoIP program like Skype, without causing a nasty feedback loop. The last time I attempted it, several years ago, I had to use a USB audio device in addition to my computer's built-in audio output, with an analog audio cable between the two.

By the way, what version of Windows do you use, Parham? I ask because it looks like you're using the Windows Classic theme, which isn't available in versions after Windows 7 as far as I know. I know that using this theme used to improve compatibility with screen readers like JAWS and Window-Eyes, but as far as I know, it doesn't matter with NVDA, though I suppose using the simpler theme would still reduce CPU and memory usage.

[parham90]

Yes, I'm using Windows 7. I use that theme because my screen reader is more responsive the less CPU and memory usage I have. So for example, if I open a heavyweight IDE, the fact that it's using so much CPU will make my screen reader lag.

[agumonkey]

The idea of a blind person investigating is one strong meta metaphor.

[Nishioka]

Very cool. Thanks for the links!