Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <427A14B7.D039FD99@dessent.net>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 05:42:31 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: setup alternatives (was Re: Bespoke installations: simple elegance of setup.exe when setup.ini is absent)
References: <53BD2E0187CCDE4C81FA4B7DCFB0513905B7D1 AT CASCITRIX01 DOT hq DOT castel DOT com> <00da01c54fd4$e1dbd9f0$e6ec6f83 AT chimaera> <d57p2c$g8t$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT org> <427873F8 DOT 6020108 AT isonews2 DOT com> <20050504135212 DOT GB29451 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <loom DOT 20050505T111431-941 AT post DOT gmane DOT org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

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

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/