I'm going to assume you're not a screen reader user.

I taught myself how to code before I lost my vision. I use an Intel based mac with voiceover sometimes. I also use vs code with high contrast mode. Usually it works pretty well between my limited vision, voiceover, and high contrast, and a large 32" 4k monitor.

I'd start with an interpreted language first like Python so that you can get immediate feedback running basic code. The whitespace might be annoying, though, depending on your vision situation.

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r/udemyfreebies often have free coding corse to offer

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there are programmer subreddits. maybe look in there too.

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For the software not sure what you need. I do php, some javascript so vscode (to be exact vscodium (fork of vscode w\\o microsoft's bloat)) does the work just fine (with intelifence for php to keep formating :)) (tip: disable auto-complete).

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Object oriented Java is the easiest that is the most popular. Since you have a mac swift will work and swift is easier to learn. Also starting with swift playgrounds is helpful. It will help you with coding logic. It’s not officially real coding but gives you ideas of functions, loops, while, for loops, and and and then commands.

Otherwise use textmate. If you do swift then Xcode.


My friend/acquaintance Yahya is starting to help people and teach these courses, geared to the blind. He’s a young professional works at apple sales right now but did their Software QA I believe. Very good at coding, and has real world experience.

Try learning python

But first you need to make sure what do you want to achieve via programming

Hi there. If you're like me and see enough to use your mac with the built-in zoom functionality, you can use any editor you want. I personally use Visual Studio Code because everyone at work uses it. It also depends on the programming language you want to use, which in turn depends on the type of software you want to write.

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I've personally never done programming with a screenreader, but from the little bits I've heard my screen reader speak when using VSCode while testing our app's screen reader accessibility, I suspect it's accessible. It's also made by Microsoft, which as far as I know has a good track record of making their applications accessible.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but you should have some basic grasp of coding or programming before jumping in headfirst. It sounds to me like you bought the equipment but now I want other people to do the research and work for you. You should have thought this through a little better instead of expecting others to guide you from the very first step.

It is like buying an expensive sports car, and asking someone to teach you how to drive.