The benefit of being blind: the screen reader announces invisible characters and I could detect the invisible variable.

How hard is it to program while being blind ? What sort of development do you do ? i understand that frontend is impossible but what other difficulties do you face ?

Are indent based langauges like python harder than bracket based languages ?

Hi,

Front end is not entirely impossible, but impossible on doing pixel perfect designs. Otherwise, I know blind people who do FE, not sure if most of it is professional though.

Indent based languages are actually easier. Every screen reader has a way to announce indentation in code, while brackets could be confusing if not formatted or verbose if properly announced.

My main issues are dev tools with bad accessibility. Also, it takes me more time to get acquainted with new code and sometimes omophones in the source code which require extra attention. Filtering through logs is also a bitch in most cases. Besides the dev tools, you can summarize the rest as bad IO speed.

I found filtering through longs a major pain even for a fully sighted person like me, so I wrote a tool to help me with that, but it's fully in a "TUI" paradigm (i.e. curses-like), so I presume it wouldn't help you much (https://github.com/akavel/up). No promises, given that the tool as is scratched my itch, but I am honestly curious if something similar could reduce your PITA, including whether this specific tool could be made useful for you through some minimal effort on my side.