Accessibility

A personal reflection on why emotional expression can be physically expensive when you are chronically ill, and why quiet does not mean okay.

I entered nursing home care because I needed to get out of an unsafe situation quickly. But the crisis also forced me to face a bigger truth: I may need full-time long-term care, even if a nursing home isn’t the right setting forever.

Why I moved my Linux workflow from a Raspberry Pi to openSUSE on WSL, and why reliability, reachability, and lower cognitive load matter more than theoretical elegance.

A practical breakdown of the VoIP and messaging options I tried as a blind, desktop-first user with coordination, fatigue, and cognitive disabilities, and why I ultimately chose Google Voice with a second number.

Text-first and keyboard-first interfaces aren’t outdated for many multiply disabled users. They’re access. This post argues for terminal-like transparency, desktop-like discoverability, and AI that can turn messy intent into action.

Autonomous agents promise to be powerful assistive tools for disabled people, but their usage-based token models can quickly become financially unsustainable for those on fixed incomes. This article explores the “context window tax” that arises from the architecture of these systems and discusses the trade-offs of shifting to flat-rate consumer subscriptions as a more predictable alternative.

A personal look at how AI tools serve as a cognitive prosthetic for a multiply disabled user who relies on a custom stack of Pieces, Supermemory, Hermes Agent, and GitHub Copilot to function at baseline.

The common assumption is that multiple disabilities are additive: two disabilities means twice the difficulty. This is wrong. Disabilities compound multiplicatively, and accessibility design that ignores this causes active harm.

A personal exploration of how severe Topographical Agnosia shaped my transition from the visual chaos of frontend development to the semantic stability of the CLI and logic-focused tools.

A personal look at the “accessibility tax” and why multiply-disabled users are forced to build fragmented, fragile tech stacks just to function.