CrabHead wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 10:24 pm How the hell do you know what do you type? When did you get blind?

Typing: Muscle memory, and the right kind of keyboard. I still have enough vision to at least see what I'm doing with assistive technology. That being said, when I'm unable to zoom into the screen or have dark mode/inverted colors, I rely solely on feeling. I'll start at a familiar location on the keyboard, usually Tab or Caps Lock, and feel across each key on the row naming it in my head until I get to the one I want. This is how I type passwords as well.

The right kind of keyboard for me is specific. It must be US layout, QWERTY, and with tactile + clicky + loud switches. Cherry MX Blue or some variant/recreation of that. Usually I can get away with chiclet-style keyboards on laptops as well because they're also clicky and loud enough for me, but I cannot get up to speed with linear, quiet, or rubber dome switches. I need the tactile feeling of the key actuating, and I need to hear the click. I even use my headset's microphone in sidetone mode to amplify the sound so I can hear it over music.

How I got blind: Genetic lottery. I have a hereditary condition (Retinitis-Pigmentosa, RP-65 specifically). My parents just happened to have the right combination of genes, 1 in a million chance, to cause me to be born with the defect.