Accessibility and Cygwin setup.exe

Lennart Borgman lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se
Tue Oct 18 20:59:00 GMT 2005


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Lennart Borgman wrote:
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>>I read in the archives that there has been some discussions about
>>accessibility and Cygwin setup.exe. Are there any plans to improve this?
>>Keyboard support was not mentioned there but is also an important
>>accessibility feature for many people. Are there any plans for keyboard
>>support?
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>I don't believe anyone has voiced plans for adding accessibility features
>to the current implementation of the setup package chooser.  There are a
>couple of people (including me) working (slowly) on re-implementing the
>chooser completely using standard Windows controls, which will support
>keyboard interaction, screen readers, etc, automatically.
>	Igor
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Thanks, that sounds very nice. BTW are you using wxWidgets (which is 
crossplatform and L-GPL) for this?

Kind regards,
Lennart

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