Hello all,
My aim is to study computer science for my undergrad. Currently, I am a pretty good jaws user, and I can get around macOS just fine. I know that many sighted users use macOS, particularly in university for computer science, however, when I look online, it’s been quite difficult to find any resources for a visually impaired programmer on macOS. Are there any good resources I can use? For example, with windows, there’s all sorts of videos and tutorials and articles, along with things like jaws scripts, that help with multiple different IDEs, terminal, etc.
Secondly, is there a blind friendly method to get a virtual machine of Windows on my Apple Silicon Mac? I am willing to pay for it if I have to.
And lastly, some of my issues with VoiceOver so far include:
In Google Docs, it’s sometimes glitchy, especially in the menu bar, like files, edit, tools, etc. I can get to the bar fine, but in the tools section, for example, simply down arrowing through the menu, or right arrow to get into sub menus, doesn’t work so well and it often glitches or exits out of the menu. Secondly, when typing in the Google document itself, it sometimes repeats different letters when navigating letter by letter, or repeats words when navigating by word with option right arrow.
By I talk Tech and More, 27 November, 2025
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