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The programmers with motor impairments interviewed in the 2022 study all used a combination of mouse, keyboard and voice to program.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“All used a combination of mouse, keyboard, and voice to program.”
Exploring Motor-impaired Programmers' Use of Speech Recognition, Sadia Nowrin et al., ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22), poster, 2022, Study participants.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3517428.3550392)- What it measures
- Interviews with programmers who already relied on voice tools for some tasks, including writing email.
- What it does not show
- The group is small and was chosen for having motor impairments, so it does not describe all programmers.