Friday October 17, 2008 Malte about some of his work at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Friday October 17, 2008 Open Source Accessibility Funding Working on open source accessibility for more than 7 years now, I am happy to see that the AEGIS project will invest €12.6m into accessibility, with the vast majority of it focused on open source solutions. Leading our OpenOffice.org accessibility efforts since 2001, I can tell you how difficult it can be to convince people to spend time and resource to work on accessibility related stuff "under the hood", since probably more than 99% of the users won't recognize anything from it.
Now with the AEGIS funding, I am sure a lot of wonderful things in the area of accessibility can be achieved in different projects. More details about the AEGIS project can be found in Peter Korn's blog, where you can also find some details about Sun's accessibility efforts... Posted by Malte Timmermann ( Oct 17 2008, 09:10:35 AM CEST ) Permalink Comments [0]
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