Notices by André Polykanine (menelion@dragonscave.space), page 2

@simon Wow, thank you! am I right that it will nag you until you turn it off? That's the feature I've been searching for in all reminder apps. Like, not beep twice and go away, but reeeeally annoy me till I shut the reminder up.

@pollbot I mean… as pets or as food (sorry)? 😂

@JenMsft I wonder if it works in SSH sessions. If yes, then I had been an idiot for at least four years to select and copy everything to Notepad for further review.

@Kaliah To me their desktop interface is also this.

@Kaliah Probably that's because I'm a huge fan of Slack. To me, if developing an app in Electron and alikes at all, that's very close to how it must be done for accessibility. With Discord… I tried, I didn't really get it.

@Caoimhe @Kaliah Yes, I was lucky enough that they made it accessible just before I found my previous job. there we used Slack and I was happy. We once tried to use Teams for everything (we used Slack for chats, Microsoft Teams for calls), but it was just awful. Slack does almost everything right: channels, messages, message editing, emojis, Windows notifications, everything is just intuitive.

today I've heard for the first time about the #RigelA open-source screen reader project for #Windows written in #RustLang. Unfortunately only Readme has an English version, all other documents and code comments are in chinese, but the project seems very promising. Use Google Translate or another translator if you, like me, don't speak Chinese. https://gitcode.net/mzdk100/rigela

Dear #blind folks, does anybody know about the #accessibility of audio conferencing service called #BigBlueButton? It used to be totally inaccessible, but sighted people say it got a redesign. Any ideas? The same question about #Jitsi. Oh, the platform of interest is #Windows. Thanks!

Today I had a new #HateCaptcha incident. I received a link from one French state organization. that link was valid only for an hour. And guess what, there was a HateCaptcha challenge there. I even did their humiliating dance with signing up (for the seven thousand first time), set that darned cookie twice, but still was getting "Cookie not set". And of course, I had to quickly ask my wife for help, so she could pass that good-for-nothing captcha visually. Please tell HateCaptcha to remove their so-called accessibility, it's beyond awful and miserable.

Re last: Please please please, don't use #HCaptcha! We blind people call it HateCaptcha, and it's for a reason. Their accessibility so-called innovative technology is simply broken and doesn't work reliably. You can't imagine how much time I spent fighting with this so-called accessibility cookie. Please don't use it, for goodness sake. #MastoAdmin

Re last: I love Americans actually, know about cultural differences, but the absence of teakettles as a general phenomenon still surprises me 😊

Hey Fediverse, did anyone try to integrate #Redmine with an external #Git repository service? As far as I can see, only #GitLab provides simple and straightforward instructions for integration of Redmine issues. Has anyone ever tried it with #Github, #Gitea, #Forgejo? Thanks!

@BrailleScreen @Kaliah This annoys me so much I'm thinking about writing my own Telegram client that would queue messages and join them, then send them to me as one message each, say, 30 seconds or one minute.

As now everyone seems to be mad with that "degoogling" thing, I'll reiterate my point: I won't stop using services that are accessible and usable for me as a blind screen reader user. Period, full stop. You can be a thousand times open-source, have good intentions and be saint angels in flesh, but if your service is not accessible *and* usable by a blind user, I cannot perform my daily tasks, be it for work, hobby or leisure, hence I won't use your service. Make your services accessible and usable for everyone and then preach about degoogling, de-appling, de-microsofting and de-whatevering. #Angry #Blind #Accessibility

@fediversereport @douglawlor @JonathanMosen Do they accept pull requests? Again, nothing promised but I could look at the project and probably throw in quick fixes here and there.