Is it possible to make dialog more accessible?

coscell at mail.batol.net coscell at mail.batol.net
Wed Nov 23 11:03:55 UTC 2005


Slackware's manage interface all are using dialog. How to patch it for 
cursor tracking?

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:32:03 +0100
> From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org>
> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Is it possible to make dialog more accessible?
> 
> Hi,
>
> coscell at mail.batol.net, le Wed 23 Nov 2005 18:41:50 +0800, a écrit :
>> I think that the program "dialog" is a good interace between blind and
>> sighted person. But when I move the high light menu item or checklist
>> cursor, the brltty doesn't follow it. Is it possible to make it accessible
>> like lynx's show cursor function?
>
> Are you really using "dialog", or its lighter rewriting "newt"?
>
>> From what I could see in debian, dialog behaves well with cursor
> tracking, while newt does not (but I submitted a bug and some patches
> for addressing that).
>
> Regards,
> Samuel
>
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