As a sighted user, I haven't looked at the keys for literally decades. One of my keyboards, I painted every letter a completely solid color, just for fun. Once you get used to it, it's not a thing.

My girlfriend is also blind, and she's a fairly fast typist, too. She uses ordinary keyboards (on her laptop), as well as typing in Braille on her BrailleNote (think a laptop custom made for blind / visually impaired users).

How is it possible? Practice, just like anything else. Clearly she had access to a computer and some kind of way to learn what each key was, and she learned it, and now she simply uses those skills so often that they're second nature. Just like they are to sighted people.

lol typing isn't really one of those skills where you need to see to be able to do it well. the keys always stay in exactly the same place so vision isn't really necessary. you wont find anyone who is typing at 60 words per min looking at the keyboard to see where the keys are.

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she probably also has some limited vision as most people who are "legally bind" actually have very poor vision but they can still see a little bit.

haha I love this question from sighted people. It's like they really do think the proper way of typing is to stare down at the keyboard and watch your fingers hit every key. Does anyone really type that way? Of course, no one that actually knows how to type. FYI, one of the only things I consistently find offensive, as a blind person, is sighted people who are petrified about offending me. If we never talked to sighted people who are ignorant we would live our lives never talking to anyone. It's very understandable for you to be ignorant. I think most blind people would rather have you politely ask them a question, not ignorantly stare at them from afar. Just try and word your questions in a thoughtful way.

The proper term for her cane is a white cane, or a mobility cane.

With the cane, training, independent training, self-explorations. Many things. I travel around two counties around here independently and know Los Angeles County more then most, even got my phone ripped out of my hands. Hahahaha! There goes my do it all attitude isn’t it? Hahahaha!

Yeah, you don’t need to see to type. I am totally blind and I am in a field where it’s largely all reading and writing, I have an AA degree in English, I am studying political science and communications. I want to be one of those conservative politicians who can communicate and interact with others. That’s all pretty much reading, writing, and speaking. Hahahaha!

I am a high accomplishing, achieving, and ambitious blind person. Refer to moniker. Numbers should be 317 sp/so.

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