We Can't See You...

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Claim: high unemployment among screen reader users makes blind coworkers rare and accessibility gets treated as a last‑minute tweak. Evidence: examples of inaccessible tooling—Visual Studio debugger inaccessible, Interface Builder, JIRA, Basecamp, SalesForce and Atom—plus a live screen‑reader demo that can’t access menus or debugger windows. Consequence: blind technologists are funneled into accessibility work regardless of interest, and tack‑on ramps fail; accessibility must be an architectural decision not an afterthought. Internal tools become external problems.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:05Being Totally Blind in the Tech Sector
3. 10:53Accessibility
4. 11:23Demo
5. 11:45Lego Bricks

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