I come across many blind people who are trying to learn coding but struggle due to accessibility problems. My startup develops an AI app for the blind and many blind people reach out to me for help as they are learning coding. I am not a software developer and I don't know much about how to make software development accessible. Is anyone interested in helping blind/low vision individuals become coders? If anyone is interested, I can connect you with individuals or help develop a more long-term solution.

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"I am currently enrolled in a nonprofit computer boot camp program. I am taking the 12-week software development course. I lost my job in higher education last June due to the pandemic and wanted to change to a high-demand field. As the only blind student at the camp I have, however, found it quite challenging as I am trying to figure out accessibility issues along with coding and am never sure if my problems are because I don’t have all the tools my sighted classmates have at their disposal or if it’s because I don’t understand. As I have done some online research I have found that most of what is available are either short videos of people talking about how they code as a blind person but without enough detail to be really helpful for my purposes or references to projects that, when I look them up, haven’t been worked on for a few years or involve one-time courses that were taught here or there. Not only am I interested in this because of my desire to learn but I also think that coding would be a great field for many blind people whose unemployment rate continues to be unacceptably high."

(Unemployment among the blind is estimated to be around 70%)