This paper addresses the need to adapt traditional programming educational programs to accommodate visually impaired students’ needs. The adoption of assistive software and hardware resources enables blind and low-sighted learners to acquire software development skills, enhancing the inclusivity of programming education and contributing to a more representative future workforce in IT. The main contributions of our work are: (i) a systematic literature review on teaching programming to blind children, and (ii) the definition of a toolkit composed of pre-existing assistive software components, to support software development by blind students, based on the literature review.