India West remembers what it was like to see. She was born with full vision, but lost it at about 4 years old when a benign brain tumor tangled with her optic nerve. Now she advocates for coding that considers the needs of differently abled users.

Dave Chesney, a computer science lecturer at the University of Michigan, teaches classes that focus on those users. In this course, he brought in West to help his students develop technologies that could help blind and visually impaired users navigate the world.
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Dave Chesney is the Toby Teorey Collegiate Lecturer of Computer Science and Engineering: https://chesneyd.engin.umich.edu/
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