There are a lot of professional developers who are blind. They use accessible IDEs paired with a Screen reader. Here is a good description: http://stackoverflow.com/a/453758/319013
In the future, I think there is a lot of potential for pairing a Conversational UI and a natural language programming...language. Eve looks really promising, and could change the way that everyone writes software, and not just the blind: http://eve-lang.com/
In the future, I think there is a lot of potential for pairing a Conversational UI and a natural language programming...language. Eve looks really promising, and could change the way that everyone writes software, and not just the blind: http://eve-lang.com/
Here is a demo: https://youtu.be/VZQoAKJPbh8?t=46m52s