Notices by André Polykanine (menelion@dragonscave.space)

does anybody know if #Yunohost management interface is accessible for screen reader users? // Est-ce que quelqu'un sait si l'interface de gestion de Yunohost est accessible aux utilisateurs de lecteurs d'écran ? Merci ! #Accessibility #Accessibilité

@Revertron @Caoimhe @Fragglemuppet I heard that, but to my slavic ear too feminine 😊

I hate modern frontend with its #JavaScript frameworks zoo, with people not even wanting to learn semantic #HTML and making their disgusting design with two tags, <div> and <span>, like uneducated parrots knowing only two words. I totally understand why things like Turbo, Stimulus and HTMX exist, I wish they were more spread in the web though.
Oh yeah, and I want a #backend job.

*Singend*
In der Codebäckerei
Gibt es manche Schweinerei… #Arbeit

I would be happy if the #UK rejoined the #EU, actually. I'm not a UK citizen, I've never been there yet (although I wish to visit the country some day), but I believe brexit was a huge error.

Today is the day, #EuropeanAccessibilityAct is there. I'm waiting for first lawsuits with my highest impatience. #Accessibility

@jscholes I'd prefer 141 checkboxes over an interface where you can't Shift+Tab back to the place where you started tabbing from (hello #UWP applications).

I have to work on the worst #PHP code I've ever seen. Just some facts for you:
* A file I'm trying to wrap my head around is 12000 (yes, it's twelve thousand) lines long;
* It has several classes in it, and some functions just in between;
* It has constructions like $array['item']['anotherItem']['yetAnotherItem'][['item', 'item']];
* Its indentation mode is tabs (yes, not all the code, just for some files);
* And variables (well, most of them) are in snake_case.
That's my current life, folks.

The #Zed text editor (https://zed.dev) finally opened early access program for their #Windows builds. I suggest everyone from the #Accessibility dev community to sign up for it, hopefully (maybe!) we will be able to shape its accessibility. Many sighted people from the Apple land praise it for speed and amount of useful functions. I won't quit using #VSCode of course, but why not to have another tool in the box?

@aral What's the point of boycotting the vote? If you wanted to change the result, you should have voted for other countries, that's it. But if you keep silence, nobody counts your voice and nobody knows your opinion.

does anybody know if the #Vivaldi browser is accessible for screen reader users? @Vivaldi

@BernieDoesIt @aral I do know it, of course, and I started my reply with it. Everyone knows that he will be immediately in prison if he finishes this war. My point was just not to accuse this girl personally, that's it.

@aral What about October the 7th? Yes, Netanyahu is a criminal and he uses his power and this war to avoid being put in prison, but why no one remembers about October the 7th absolutely horrific attack where this girl survived hiding under a pile of dead bodies of her neighbors?

I just hate this practice: "to create your account, please download our app on your phone, then you could (probably) login from your computer".
Fuck you and your #smartphone prevalence! It's my right to use my #Windows #PC I'm comfortable with, I don't want even to install your app! Why am I obliged to enter my new account data from the fucking touch screen when I have a laptop in front of me?
Unfortunately, most of the people forgot that a smartphone is a mobile device when no normal PC with normal hardware, normal keyboard, normal screen size (for the sighted) and normal sound is around. I know, I know, many people have no computer at all these days, and it saddens me very much because this is one of the reasons why number of people who really love producing and consuming text falls so drastically.

Re last: My mother, albeit very "teachable", is not a too tech-savvy person, and #skype was extremely good for longer conversations. What would you suggest in this case? I'm considering Zoom, google Meet or even Jitsi, but that needs a scheduled time.

Cette semaine j'ai eu une expérience extrêmement humiliante comme non-voyant. Je cherche du boulot (dévloppeur backend #PHP et #DotNet/#CSharp), et une société m'a contacté ici à Strasbourg. La personne RH était bienveillante, l'entretien s'est bien passé, puis on m'a fait venir chez eux pour discuter avec leur engineering manager.
J'ai prévenu dès la première conversation que j'étais complètement non-voyant, c'est-à-dire aveugle. Oké, m'a-t-on dit, pas d'soucis, si tu passes notre test, tu peux bien travailler chez nous.
Ils m'ont donné un test, une petite API à faire chez moi ce que j'ai fait dès le début (fichier Docker compose, base de données, tout le tralala avec les tests). Ils m'ont dit que tiens, ton test est super bon, « même j'ai pas pensé aux tests que tu as fait », m'a dit le lead dev.
C'était la fin décembre, et avant les vacances on m'a rassuré que tout va bien, que le test est bon, et même on m'a nommé le montant approximatif du salaire.
Quand je suis venu pour débriffer le test, on m'a laissé comprendre qu'en fait c'est l'entretien final. Bien sûr que je ne faisais rien pendant ce mois de janvier, croyant naïvement que le boulot était dans ma poche.
Quand j'ai commencé à parler avec le CTO, il m'a soudainement dit que, premièrement, il n'est pas possible de choisir le système d'exploitation et on est tous sur des Mac, même les sales et customer support. Oké, ai-je pensé, on va s'débrouiller (malgré le fait que j'en ai beaucoup parlé avant). Puis il m'a sorti le suivant : « Tu sais, il faut que tous nos développeurs voient des maquettes que les PM dessinent, et on les discute aux sessions de grooming ». Attends attends, lui ai-je dit, mais je suis backend, quel est le rapport entre moi et le fameux pixel perfect design ? «Mais ouais, tu sais, ici tout le monde fait comme ça, tu sais, faut voir des maquettes, gna gna gna ». Et en plus, m'a-t-il dit, les gens customer support travaillent qu'avec des vidéos. « Quoi ?! » — j'ai déjà compris qu'on ne voulait pas de moi, mais quand même. donc, ai-je demandé, c'est si difficile de copier-coller le texte d'erreur que le backend leur montre ? C'est si difficile de décrire un ticket normal en texte, comme tout le monde le fait ? « Mais tu sais, ils sont comme ça, les vidéos c'est plus rapide, plus facile, gna gna gna, patati-patata ».
Et bien sûr, on m'a appelé pour dire qu'on veut pas de moi.
Je suis vraiment choqué par cette attitude et si je savais quoi faire, je voudrais agir. #Accessibilité #NonVoyants #Aveugles #Discrimination

@glyph That's because most of users, I mean, the vast majority of users won't install Linux to use given software. I see "no Windows support", I don't install, sorry not sorry. I can justify my choice because I'm blind and I need accessibility (pretty niche thing, yeah?), but many other people have other justifications. That's why you are basically forced to, yes, support a proprietary platform. To defend Microsoft, they open-sourced lots of stuff recently, including the whole .NET ecosystem.

@Fragglemuppet Struggling. The app itself is also not welcoming, to be honest. The thing that makes me most angry is that they removed everything from https://alexa.amazon.com/. They used to have a neat web interface there.

@A11yAwareness I'm still proud I created an Accessibility channel at my previous work.

@xogium All of those "De-googlin" and "de-microsofting" solutions preach about evil corporations that will eat our bodies and suck our souls, how good and cool they are, but actually they don't give a flying F about accessibility. Maybe "all" is too strong, but lots and lots of them.