RE: GNU Accessibility Statement Online

  • From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:53:02 -0400

I have to also say that while I guess everyone else said take this line out

and please don't invite users to do something on a server that they could
conceivably do on their own computers.

I also want to put my two cents in for example most people don't even
realize that OPRA is a server based technology and it is the widest used web
browser in the world soon to even be wider since IPhone will have theirs out
soon.  Not only that but not long from now OPRA will be 100% accessible.
The fact is everything that happens in Opra is server based.  So this is a
hard statement for me to even imagine because servers are becoming the new
thick clients where we are starting to be able to carry things like Google
maps and client web browsers and client spread sheets which could be full
access front ends.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sina Bahram
Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:03 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: GNU Accessibility Statement Online

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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