Oracle Drops Sun's Commitment To Accessibility

Posted by Tux De Luxe at 06:46 09/02/2010
Oracle Drops Sun's Commitment To Accessibility: "An anonymous reader writes 'What I feared has come true: after buying Sun, Oracle had a look at its accessibility group and made big cuts in it by firing the most important contributors to the Linux accessibility tools. This is a very sad day for disabled people, as it means we do not really have full-time developers any more.' The coverage in OSTATIC has a few more details, including the caution: 'This just shows that all too few companies are sponsoring a11y work. If one company laying off a couple of developers spells trouble for the project, then there were problems before that happened' (thanks to reader dave c-b for pointing this out).

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