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A few years back I attended a tech talk from T.V.Raman (of emacspeak fame) and he was making fun of us, poor non-blind users, for being so slow at deciphering the bursts of sounds from the screen reader.

He, and other blind computer scientists that were present at the talk, was so used to the screen reader that could crank its speed up to impossible speeds for non-blind users (that don't exercise their hearing sense that much).

The same applied to the tiny distortions in pitch and tone that he'd use as a replacement for syntax coloring.

Pretty amazing.

On the contrary, searching for javascript technical topics still throws up a lot of nonsense. developer.mozilla.org rarely comes up among the top results. For example [javascript offsetwidth] shows java2s.com results on position 2 and 3 for me (may be just my anecdotal case though, css queries seem better off).