How the blind programmer works. He tells himself

In this photo, the Finnish programmer Tuka Oval. It works at Vincit in Tamper. “Something is not enough here, think about looking at her,” he writes on the company's website. There is no monitor and mouse on the table, since Oila does not use them. He does not need a monitor, because Oyla still does not see - he is invisible. The programmer does not use the mouse, because it is more convenient for him to work on the keyboard.

In his work, Tuka Oyala uses a program that reads the text from the screen, but this is not a voice assistant, to which everyone is already used to. The robot reads the programmer text at a speed of 450 words per minute, this is more than two times faster than people say.

At the same time, Oyala uses a robot that even reads the English text with the Finnish “accent”. On the Vincit website you can listen to how the text is pronounced - it is impossible to make out almost nothing. Since the text is pronounced by line, for tukes, all pages on the Internet look like they were copied into a notebook and read out.

According to the programmer, he also uses the Braylev display. According to him, read the code with him faster. However, he still has to get acquainted with each line. Oyala notes that despite this, for him, as well as for sighted programmers, apostas are important, with which the code is more convenient to read. The voice program tells him about the indentation.

Also, as Oyala says, it is more convenient for him when the changes in the code are displayed using pluses and minuses, as on GitHub, and not with colors, as in some other programs. “Plus and minus say faster than some intricate tint of red,” the developer writes.

According to Tuki Oyal, he had to work not only with Bacand , but also the frontand . According to the programmer, once he worked for a change in the angular application for two weeks, and at the same time he did not have to change anything in the visual part that the user sees.