Accessibility and Cygwin setup.exe

[Sean McMahon]

Igor, have you been able to get any documentation from screen reader and screen
magnification makers reguarding what are and are not accessible window
controlls?  Glad to hear this is being worked on.
Sean
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: Accessibility and Cygwin setup.exe


> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> 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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