Welcome to COLAP, a blog that promotes accessible solutions with the goal of being productive.
Recent Posts
Working With Pagers
How do we inspect files on our computer without the pain of launching a full-fledged text editor? We use something called a pager.
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Why I Switched to Vim
Vim is a widely used text editor on the Linux platform. My switch to Vim was not surprising, though unpredictable six months ago.
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Learning Emacspeak
Emacspeak is a popular screen-reading package that runs in Emacs, due to its accessibility features. The question is: How can one learn it. In this post, I hope to provide an answer to that.
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Gnucash: Towards the Promise of an Accessible Accounting Software
Personal finance management is perhaps one of the important aspects of how we run our lives, whether as employees, self-employed, business owners or investors.1 So it is a matter of time before one starts looking for a good and accessible personal finance package on his or her primary computing platform.
My primary concern is accessibility on Linux, and in this post I will be providing some accessibility tips on working with GnuCash, which I consider to be perhaps a leading application in the field.
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How do you read? A Reflection on Accessible Formats
Generalisation is not always a foible to be frowned at, but a a trait that makes it possible to standardise things and enables predictability in similar settings. The setback may only arise when we have to deal with those situations that do not fit in with the template we developed, cases otherwise known as outliers. We have outliers because the world is what it is due to diversity.
In this post, we are going to discuss one such scenario: that of managing the written word.
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