RE: GNU Accessibility Statement Online

  • From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:49:15 -0400

This line is a flat out lie.

Silverlight is similar. PDF is also difficult; though there is free software
to view it, it does not support free access technology software. GNU PDF
aims to do better.

I was in the Adobe open forum at CSUN and I have it recorded.  They use NVDA
to do all their testing now and it supports PDF better if not as well as
JAWS  in.  According to the Adobe Accessibility crew which were at the forum
this is what they are shooting for is a free accessible solutions that Jaws
can follow or gw or who ever.  Furthermore the statement about Flash is not
as true as it used to be and according to the Adobe guys its only getting
better.

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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