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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:00:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Lennart Borgman <lennart DOT borgman DOT 073 AT student DOT lu DOT se>
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Subject: Re: Accessibility and Cygwin setup.exe
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Lennart Borgman wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Thanks, that sounds very nice. BTW are you using wxWidgets (which is
> crossplatform and L-GPL) for this?

No, I'm not planning to use wxWidgets.  I'd rather not introduce any
dependencies on non-standard libraries (i.e., libraries not likely to be
already present on the user's machine).  And linking statically will, IMO,
unnecessarily bloat the executable.
	Igor
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