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menelion

@menelion@dragonscave.space

A married and happy geek from Ukraine living in Strasbourg, France. #Backend software engineer, #accessibility specialist.
My main programming languages are #PHP and #CSharp.
Pro-Ukrainian, pro-American, pro-European. Technical progress must not be stoppable.
Pagan, worshipper of Scandinavian gods.
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This account is multilingual. Posts may contain strong language, not always behind a content warning, and personal opinions.
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menelion, to github
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Hi folks, especially software developers! I'm taking part in a research meeting and I hope to raise as many points as I can. I was told this fact is not at all confidential, so I may gather feedback.
Here's what I remember: multiline comments are inaccessible (eternal story); sometimes menu roles are used where they shouldn't be (watching repos, reactions etc.). Anything else that really bugs you at GitHub? Thanks!

menelion,
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@jcsteh @twynn Thanks Jamie, will note down and hopefully pass along.

menelion,
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@vick21 @drew Why not? I wouldn't call it inaccessible, some parts, especially newer ones, are weirder though.

menelion,
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@svenja Agreed totally, forgot to mention it.

cariefisher, to random
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Well @menelion it took a couple of weeks, but the accessibility category on the GitHub discussion board is much cleaner ✨

We were able to delete a bunch of spam, move some issues into a more accurate category, and close-out a lot of already resolved issues 💪

There is a lot of work still to be done internally to be sure the legitimate issues are correctly reported and tracked, but happy to be able to report some progress :blobcathearthug:

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/categories/accessibility

menelion,
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@cariefisher Wow, nice job!

mnnwvn, to random Russian
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сволочи даже шрифты базовые говорят самостоятельно ставить в alpine

menelion,
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@mnnwvn Я ничегошеньки не понимаю в дистрибутивах (почти), но вроде же Alpine позиционировалась как суперминималистичная, не?

menelion, to Youtube
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There is a polyglot on that keeps calling Latin alphabet "American" and Spanish language "Mexican" (for humorous purposes, of course). Like: "The language X is easy to learn because it uses the American alphabet". Comments are always priceless.

menelion,
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@NoahCarver Of course!

vantablack, to random
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had to use the internet without ublock origin for like five minutes the other day and was horrified about what an ad-infested shithole it is, i can't believe regular people just live like this, it's like some horrible dystopian parallel universe

menelion,
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@vantablack It's paradoxical, but that's just why I bought YouTube Premium. I do everything on my PC, my wife is mostly a smartphone person. I have UBlock Origin, she doesn't. She kept mildly asking me for a YouTube premium subscription, I thought it wasn't worth it, to be honest, like some time later. Once she asked me to do something from her account, I don't remember what, but I had to go to YouTube. I was swearing so loudly she ran to my place in a rush asking what's up. I was like: "How in the world can you navigate Youtube at all?!" And she went: "Well, I told you quite a number of times that I would like to have a Premium subscription, but you… you know…". This same day I bought YouTube Premium Family.

menelion, to accessibility
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Hi specialists! Do you have in mind an article about HTML email accessibility best practices? I was almost sure @aardrian wrote something about it but couldn't find it straight away. It's for a friend :) Thanks!

menelion,
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@jscholes @aardrian That I know :) I even suggested him not to overuse too many nested tables and provide a plain-text version of the email. but people like reading or watching something, that's why I'm asking.

weirdwriter, to random

Do we really need a YouTube downloader as an NVDA add on when YT-DLP works far better?

menelion,
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@zersiax @weirdwriter I'm sorry, but those things are totally outside of what a screen reader is for. I'm thinking about making a simple GUI app that would work with YouTube, but, to be honest, I don't want to spend the time for a free app and totally am not sure whether someone would buy such a thing :)

technocounselor, to random
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Maybe this makes me lazy, but if I hear, the app works quite well with voiceover, but there are a few areas where you will have to use screen recognition, I’m likely to look for another app. Screen recognition has always been a bit buggy and laggy for me.

menelion,
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@technocounselor Definitely. I'm even harsher there: screen recognition is not suitable for use in apps. It's not even a crutch, it's a self-made wooden leg that people used in the times when there were no modern prostheses.

phpcs, to random

Released: PHP_CodeSniffer 3.10.0 🎉

This release adds support for PHP 8.2 DNF types in all the right places.

Additionally, the help screens have had a facelift and should be significantly more informative now.
Try it out by running phpcs -h.

Thanks go out to the 8 people who contributed to this release!

Like what you see ? Please consider funding this project: https://opencollective.com/php_codesniffer

https://github.com/PHPCSStandards/PHP_CodeSniffer/releases/tag/3.10.0

menelion,
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@phpcs Thanks! It would be nice though if there was a list of all available sniffs to tweak the configuration better.

PetitPas, to random French
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J'arrive à reconnaitre les pinsons maintenant 🥰

menelion,
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@PetitPas Par leur voix? Oui, c'est assez facile. C'est intéressant que je peux reconnaître des notes mais il m'est assez difficile de mémoriser la différence entre chants des oiseaux.

eclectech, to photography
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Proposal.

We continue to call trees trees, but when they're really tall we indicate that linguistically by elongating the word.

Here, for example, we have a very splendid treeeeeeeeeeeeee.

(this might be a sign for me to step away from the computer for a while, later lovelies!)

menelion,
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@eclectech Then if a tree is lower than a set point, say, a meter to a meter and a half (3 to 5 feet), we'd just call it a tre. Like: Some young tres were planted in our neighborhood, they are so funny beside those high treeeeeees!

NightDrake, to random

I'm not a very big movie watcher. But last night when we were out with friends. We saw the movie Her starring Scarlett Johansson. It was absolutely wonderful! I quite enjoyed it. It's definitely some food for thought.

menelion,
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@NightDrake Yes, I heard a lot about this movie actually.

menelion,
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@NightDrake Is it available somewhere on streaming services?

PetitPas, to random French
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Maintenant on peut signaler un spam SMS en envoyant une capture d'écran sur https://www.33700.fr/ !
Pratique quand on est à l'étranger !

menelion,
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@PetitPas Et comment le fait-on en général depuis la France?

menelion,
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@PetitPas Merci bien!

janl, to random
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Well, officially in the market for a Slack replacement now. Hit me. What are you personally happy with in a small business setting, strong macOS/iOS support, user friendly, including nontechnical folks?

menelion,
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@janl TL;DR: Nothing. If you don't care about accessibility for screen reader users, try Mattermost though.

menelion,
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@r343l @janl I don't see them worsening accessibility, although I stopped using Slack for daily work starting this February, before I'd been using it for four years daily and hopefully will start again soonish. As I've said, there is no alternative known to me. I tested Mattermost, but it's a disaster accessibility-wise, Matrix also. I know some blind people using Matrix, but I had no luck in it at al: constant focus jumping, unintuitive interface, all the goodies of a poorly accessible app.

menelion, to php
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Dear #PHP community! Could someone with power please raise an RFC to make the strict parameter of the in_array() built-in function true by default? It's really annoying to remember putting true as the third parameter every time, and not doing it might potentially lead to weird bugs. Thanks!

menelion,
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@ntha Unfortunately, it's a super old frameworkless codebase. Imagine that I have to bring it from 5.6 straight to 8.2.

menelion,
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@Yinshi Да я вообще не понимаю, что это блин такое. То есть оно в массиве, но не совсем, потому что '1' == 1. Аррргх! К счастью, теперешний PHP всё же по большей части, что называется, здорового человека, но вот такие штуки прям выбешивают иногда.

cariefisher, to random
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Excited to share a new blog post detailing GitHub's journey in fostering accessibility through our in-house Champions program. Learn how we empower accessibility advocates within our organization to drive positive change and gain insights for fostering accessibility in your own organization! 🙌

https://github.blog/2024-05-01-empowering-accessibility-githubs-journey-building-an-in-house-champions-program

menelion,
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@cariefisher Hi again Carie! I was skimming through the comments on that discussion I created for multiline comments accessibility. And I wanted to bring one more thing: first, it would be nice to add it to the accessibility category. And second, the Accessibility category itself is a nightmare of a mess: lots of scam, lots of off-topic discussions. I'd be glad to help in cleaning this, but of course I have no access to do that.

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