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From: "Lee Maschmeyer" <lee_maschmeyer AT wayne DOT edu>
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Subject: Setup: Could the list of items be in the tab order?
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:04:27 -0400
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Hi folks,

Several years ago I tried broaching this subject. Igor became so flagrantly 
irritable I immediately apologized for daring to speak and have been scared 
to do so ever since. Now that Setup's design is legitimately being 
reconsidered I'll try again:

If the list of items to install could be a standard treeview that can be 
tabbed to, this would make things very much easier for at least us blind 
people. In the blind community Cygwin's installer is alleged to be 
"inaccessible", meaning our tools can't make sense of it. This is 
categorically false as I have often pointed out to them. But it takes so 
much learning to figure out how it works that they're mostly confounded. And 
it's clumsy as heck even when you do figure it out. If we could tab to the 
list and interact with it with arrows, opening and closing categories with 
right and left arrow, scrolling with PageDown and Up, it really would be 
much easier to work with.

If that's hard to do, if it requires other changes to invisible parts of the 
code, then don't do it. As has been pointed out, there are always better 
things to do. But since we're considering possibilities here's one to at 
least throw out. :-)

Thanks,

-- 
Lee Maschmeyer
Wayne State University Computing Center
5925 Woodward, #281
Detroit MI 48202
USA 


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