André Polykanine

#Microsoft keeps breaking #Accessibility in #windowsForms. Many of you can notice that their menus are not native menus anymore, but I was today years old when I noticed that their list view is also something else. With NVDA it reads as "table" (which it should not), and only the first column is read. I checked, it ships in SIC! and nobody told me (probably because nobody knew there are other columns). I'm crafting a solution right now, but it's a crutch of course. I don't want to go away from WinForms because other #CSharp solutions are even worse accessibility-wise. It seems, the only viable way to cook apps is wxDragon now, but it's Rust which… is syntactically very specific, at least for me. Sigh. #Blind

Hallelujah! #Google fixed password autofill #Accessibility in #Chrome! Coooool!

When creating a new #GitHub organization, they populate it with default labels. Very recently they added #Accessibility as one of them. So, anybody who creates an organization, has accessibility as default label for their issues in all repositories. Nice job, GitHub, I appreciate!

Okay people, new instance, new #Introduction!
I'm Andre, a (mostly) backend software engineer and accessibility specialist from Ukraine living in Strasbourg, France.
I'm married and happy, we have two cats.
My main interests are #Technology, #Books, #Music, #Languages, #Accessibility.
I'm blind from birth, if it matters (it may, because I will ask for image descriptions if you send me images without alt text).
My operating system of choice is #Windows, my AI coding assistant is #ClaudeCode, my smart speaker assistant is #AmazonAlexa.
I use my phone far more seldom than 99% of you, preferring my laptop.
I love various kinds of music, especially renaissance and traditional folk music of most peoples of the world.
I'm Pagan, but I revere Jesus christ and his Mother Mary (it might sound complicated, so ask if interested, I'm open to such discussions), so Christians won't see any blasphemy in my posts.
I like talking politics also, but in our times it becomes tougher and tougher, as many people tend to take bold actions if you disagree with them politically. Long story short: I'm pro-Occidental, pro-American, pro-European, leaning right.
I'm in the beginning of develloping our small business (together with my wife, of course). We have some smaller pieces of software and libraries, also my wife has finished a hexalogy (six-book series) of fantasy novels, for now in Russian, but I hope we'll find ways to translate at least into English and French.
That was long already, so ask for more. Oh yeah, I'm a language nerd!