My profession photo taken several years ago. I'm wearing a light sweater there, I'm slightly smiling.

André Polykanine

@menelion@caneandable.social · Joined ⁨Aug⁩ ⁨2026⁩

A married and happy geek from Strasbourg, France.
Backend software engineer and accessibility specialist with 20 years of experience.
I live with my wife and our two cats, and I believe cats are the cutest, yet the most independent companions.
Pagan, worshiper of Scandinavian gods.
This account is multilingual, posts may contain strong language.
No alt text, no boost.
AI is our assistant, not our replacement, not our enemy.
Pro-European, pro-American, leaning to the right.
Opinions are my own.

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#microsoft

#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