On 28 Aug 2009, at 00:53, Frank Ludolph wrote:

> Jack,
>
> I have made some revisions to the GUI at 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Driver_Update/dduGUIspec/
>
> The major revision addresses the "silently installed" issue raised  
> by Dave and others. In a nutshell the silent, automatic installation  
> is still performed, but a notification is posted in all cases where  
> there are missing device drivers. If the user opens the GUI panel  
> all devices missing drivers are listed and those devices that are  
> having drivers automatically installed will display "installing..."  
> in the Driver column until the installation of each driver completes.

I'm coming very late to this, but as I understand it, notification  
balloons with "click this message to do X" functionality are currently  
not accessible, so with this design, screenreader users may not be  
made aware that they have missing drivers.  (They can presumably check  
manually by running the DDU tool themeselves, but that doesn't really  
constitute the 'equivalent access' that we aim to provide wherever  
practical.)

Cc'ing Willie Walker for any more thoughts...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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