-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just installed Cygwin and setup.exe last Thu Feb. 17th 2005 with the most recent version available. I should begin with the fact that I'm totally blind and use an audio screen reader to identify screen contents. The way to most effectively navigate the screen's controls found in any windows dialog is via the keyboard; particularly, pressing the tab key to jump from control to control and using the arrow keys to move up and down through list and combo boxes.
It so happens that most of setup.exe works fine out of the box except for one major issue. The package selection portion is completely inaccessible and unusable by a blind person trying to use the keyboard to navigate it. The rest of the dialogs for setup seem OK. I am a programmer so would be willing to attempt a fix to make this more accessible by allowing keyboard access to the selection control. At this point, I can't even gain keyboard focus to it by clicking on it with the screen reader's mouse emulation keys. In other words, I can use our mouse emulation keys to read that part of the selection that is currently visible, click the options such as category names, default/install/uninstall..., but I cannot scroll the list at all! To really make this think work at all, we need to enable keyboard focus to the list, allow scrolling up and down that list with arrow keys, Change the selection statuses by hitting the space bar like is done with Microsoft Office's installer, and set a tab stop for this control so it can be accessed by hitting the tab key as one "walks" through the dialog. This may sound like a list of demands but is really crucial for any blind person wanting to use Cygwin with addaptive technology like screen readers. I would be willing to help with these improvements though I might need to ask some questions on here to be sure I *REALLY* know what I'm doing:). I saw this subject brought up on this list several months ago in the archives but I did not find any answers to the original questions posted by someone else. So here is that subject again. If you have any further questions about blind accessibility and the like, feel free to shout, and I'm sure I and any other blind users lerking about will be more than glad to answer. It was suggested that I pull from CVS to begin this effort; is that still the case? - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://ld.net/?holmesgrown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCGfobWSjv55S0LfERAsgQAKCzr2PUsfgkahBqnDea/xFWZCNqFACg4KC0 Qs7IfDaCJOHAHyr8NainhAA= =/YIE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----