Re:How does apt render its fancy progress bar?
by AkBKukU on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:36AM
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For apt the easy way around this is to just use apt-get since that has a traditional output.
But you make an interesting point. I've lamented the current practice of hard coding escape sequences in the past for novelty reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013556 But a screen reader could theoretically implement a terminfo entry that could be checked by an application to see if cursor control is supported. If not then it could fall back to a plain output method which I believe should make following along audibly easier.
But you make an interesting point. I've lamented the current practice of hard coding escape sequences in the past for novelty reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26013556 But a screen reader could theoretically implement a terminfo entry that could be checked by an application to see if cursor control is supported. If not then it could fall back to a plain output method which I believe should make following along audibly easier.