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Date:	Thu, 05 May 2005 05:42:31 -0700
From:	Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)
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Bill Hughes wrote:

> YaST from SUSE is now GPL and handles dependencies quite well, the reason I
> mention it is that as an alternative to the more normal 'pretty' gui it also
> has a text mode gui-ish interface which may work better with a screen
> reader/magnifier.

I think that as long as we stick to standard controls and follow the
normal accessability guidelines, it will work fine with a screen
reader.  The problem we have now is that the main package selection
widget is a home grown control that paints itself (so it can't be read
by other programs) and doesn't take keyboard input.

Brian

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