I started using Macs when I was 2, starting with our Mac SE and simple games and MacPaint back in 1986. I had lost my left eye to cancer at that point, but still had full vision in my right eye. I went on to become a power user of both Macs and Windows systems, but heavily preferred Macs. I gamed on windows, but all my professional work was done on the Mac up through college and beyond when I became an animator and VFX artist.

Then I lost my sight entirely in 2014 and learned VoiceOver for iOS and MacOS and Jaws for Windows. I still heavily prefer the Mac and now use it for testing, writing, coding, building games and websites, and general every day use. My job is at a tech company and everyone there is issued a Mac unless they request windows, so that worked out great.

My very first was when I was in elementary school, and my teachers were teaching me typing. My first Windows experience was around 2000, when I was 17.

I distinctly remember using my first computer when I was 5 with help from my teachers. Ah. I loved Kidpics. My first screen reader was introduced to me when I was 8 along with Talking Typer. After I mastered the keyboard, which took some time, I just went from there and now it is the easiest thing ever.

I started as a tiny child. So as technology advanced and my vision declined, I was building the skills and drawing on past experience to help myself. The hardest thing for me these days is making the switch to anything new/different (new OS, different internet browser setup, some app radically rearranges everything in an update...)

I ask my sighted friends for a lot of help. “Hey, I’m blind, I can’t find X, halp”

I learned to type at around age 8, and began using it full time at age 11 or maybe 12, the school bought me my first laptop, and then I had a home pc.

I struggled with learning using the PC at first for probably a month or two, learning JAWS, and learning how to work the programs to save and edit and find files, but now I can't imagine life without one.

Late 80s/early 90s with the Apple II. Keyboarding was a requirement for everyone in middle school. Probably was the last time I looked at the keys. Still had enough vision to see the screen. Games made it a fun class.

My first computer was a TI99 when I was 5, so that would have been in 1983. My dad was always the one who taught me everything about computers growing up; how to use them, how to build them, BASIC programming.

Linux I learned on my own in my teens and started to get into more advanced programming then, as well.

Now I'm a senior software engineer with 24 years of professional experience and, after his stroke a few years ago, I'm the one helping my dad use a computer.

i used a computer when i was a kid but not much aside from that. it took me a bit to get the hang of a cellphone but that was just because i never had one until recently. voiceover and magnification are both kind of imperfect ime, but it gets easier. i knew 2 older blind people who are really ‘into’ accessibility but they didn’t help too much (i didn’t really ask)

When I was 5 or 6; in the late 80s. As long as something is close to accessible I’ve always been able to figure it out. It’s one of those things that comes kind of naturally.

Around the time the internet came out 1993 is. It was a Macintosh I think. The first thing I learned to do was play solitaire. Wow how computers have progressed. Our family pc was a big heavy monitor.

Like... 1st grade?

I remember XP & 2000.

My school district was pretty smart, and so they realized that preparing a visually impaired kid to use technology would set him up pretty good in the future. I was touch typing by 5th grade.