RE: GNU Accessibility Statement Online

  • From: Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:11:52 -0400

Hi,
You know, I kind of wondered about that one myself lol. So, that
explains it. It sucks that hidden agendas have to sneak in everywhere,
even in to a goal as pure and right as accessibility.
Storm


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On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 11:03 -0400, Sina Bahram wrote:

> The following statement really got to me:
> 
> "and please don't invite users to do something on a server that they could 
> conceivably do on their own computers."
>  
> I understand that Stallmann is one of the leading activists against cloud 
> computing, but why on earth are you allowing such an
> agenda to creap into a statement on accessibility?
> 
> In my opinion, this one statement completely undermines the rest of the 
> things you're trying to do.
> 
> Take care,
> Sina
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Hofstader
> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 9:00 AM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: GNU Accessibility Statement Online
> 
> Hi,
> 
> For a couple of months, Richard Stallman and I have been working on the GNU 
> Accessibility Statement (GAS)  which takes a no nonsense
> approach to endorsing the rights of people with disabilities as regard 
> software within the context of free software. I've never read
> a more strongly worded statement from any organization regarding software and 
> people with disabilities.
> 
> GAS also takes a strong stance on free software values but does not endorse 
> any specific license, although we would like people to
> use GPL.
> 
> You can read the statement at: 
> http://www.gnu.org/accessibility/accessibility.html
> and send comments to me that we can consider for future revisions of the 
> statement.
> 
> Thanks,
> cdh
> 
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