It is possible to create your own custom gesture set taking advantage of the new Talkback interface in Android 11. This post is going to show how.

If ever there is the most cruel form of oppression, it is where a vulnerable person cooperates in the act of his or her own denigration on the strength of a single story from somewhere. This post is going to explore the dangers that are inherent in a single narrative in human rights discourse.

A national policy on disability is what the disability community had been yearning for. But what are the implications of the policy? This post reflects on whether this represents a fulfillment of a dream or not.

In a previous post I went through the process of writing a shell script for optical character recognition from the terminal or console. While the post was educational enough in that one had to learn bash scripting in the process, I have to admit that it was not optimal especially for a production environment.

Text patterns are some of the fascinating and illuminating data that one comes across: one’s ability to decode them makes it possible to find whatever they are looking for. In this post, though, I am going to show the difference between globing and regex.

If ever there is a tool that any system administrator or programmer cherishes the most, it is their text editor. This is because among the many other resources, this is the only one that he or she can wield most to expres himself or herself unreservedly. But how does one deal with console editors? This is the answer this post seeks to answer.

The bane of anyone doing some text-processing when he or she is blind is coming across inaccessible content. This post is going to look at how to work with digitised images and scanned PDF from the terminal. Along the way, we will develop a rudimentary program to process PDF files into plain text.

Welcome to 2021, and a new outlook for this site! There is no doubt that the past year had been a bleak one, when we lost our loved ones to the new form of a flu virus, now known as the Covid-19.

What are the essentials of an accessible Linux distribution, especially for someone migrating from any other platform? This post is a reflection based on my experiences to answer this question.

What is Zsh, and how is it similar or different from the bash?

There are some builtinin tools within our screen-readers that boost our productivity. In this post, we are going to look at one of the modern Linux console-based screen-readers: the Fenrir and how to carry out clipboard management with it.

While a number of high-quality journals require that you pay to access their articles, there is an ongoing movement to liberate information for scholarly consumption.

Switching to a new computing platform is a great challenge, particularly when you think of new ways of accomplishing things. This post is going to look at how one has to be mentally prepared for any switch, whether on a desktop or mobile platform.

A defining feature of all password managers is not only their ability to generate, store, and delete passwords. Rather, their popularity lies in the convenience they provide to the end users, one of these being syncing across devices.