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Re: Accessibility and Cygwin setup.exe
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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