Well, getting decent keyboard access is naturally an interest of mine. I'll see what I can dig up about this from my screen-reader manufacturer. More then likely your assumption is correct, but if it doesn't work with "standard" windows controlls, that's also something I need to know. Thanks Sean PS. unfortunately I'm on outlook express here so if you know how to top post with that mailer, send that along to me. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sean McMahon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 2:08 PM Subject: Re: Accessibility and Cygwin setup.exe
> Ugh, top-posting... Reformatted. > > On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Sean McMahon wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Lennart Borgman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > > 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 > > > > 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 > > No, I have not tested my code with screen readers or any other > accessibility software, as that's not my primary goal here. What I'd like > to do is essentially decouple the logic from the GUI in setup, and have > setup use standard Windows controls. The accessibility and keyboard > interaction come as nice side benefits resulting from the use of standard > controls. I'm assuming that the controls I'm planning to use (e.g., > ListView) have sufficient accessibility support built-in. > > If and when I have some working code, I will request that people > interested in accessibility test that code for the features they need. > > One thing I forgot to mention in my previous reply is that while using the > standard Windows controls is my choice, nothing prevents others from > submitting patches with alternate approaches (including patching the > current code for accessibility). > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity > of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- 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/
