www/accessibility accessibility.html

[Yavor Doganov]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Yavor Doganov <yavor>   10/04/26 13:21:21

Modified files:
        accessibility  : accessibility.html 

Log message:
        Boilerplate compliance changes.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/accessibility/accessibility.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.2&r2=1.3

Patches:
Index: accessibility.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/accessibility/accessibility.html,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -b -r1.2 -r1.3
--- accessibility.html  31 Mar 2010 20:07:56 -0000      1.2
+++ accessibility.html  26 Apr 2010 13:21:15 -0000      1.3
@@ -4,35 +4,37 @@
 
 <h2>GNU Accessibility Statement</h2>
 
-<p>Project GNU urges people working on free software to follow standards
-and guidelines for universal accessibility on GNU/Linux and other free
-operating systems. Multi-platform projects should use the cross
-platform accessibility interfaces available that include GNU/Linux
-distributions and the GNOME desktop. Project GNU also advises
-developers of web sites to follow the guidelines set forth by the
-World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative.</p>
-
-<p>According to the United Nations in 2005, there were 600 million people
-with disabilities in the world. To use computers, many of them need
-special software known as "access technology". Like other programs,
-these can be free software or proprietary. Those which are free
-software respect the freedom of their users; the rest, proprietary
-programs, subject those users to the power of the program's owner.</p>
-
-<p>In order for access technology to work, the other software in use must
-interoperate with it. The majority of computer programs and web sites
-(85% in one estimate) do not comply with accessibility standards and
-guidelines, so they do not work with access technology. They provide
-a frustrating experience, and can bar users from job or school
+<p>Project GNU urges people working on free software to follow
+standards and guidelines for universal accessibility on GNU/Linux and
+other free operating systems.  Multi-platform projects should use the
+cross platform accessibility interfaces available that include
+GNU/Linux distributions and the GNOME desktop.  Project GNU also
+advises developers of web sites to follow the guidelines set forth by
+the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative.</p>
+
+<p>According to the United Nations in 2005, there were 600 million
+people with disabilities in the world.  To use computers, many of them
+need special software known as &ldquo;access technology&rdquo;.  Like
+other programs, these can be free software or proprietary.  Those
+which are free software respect the freedom of their users; the rest,
+proprietary programs, subject those users to the power of the
+program's owner.</p>
+
+<p>In order for access technology to work, the other software in use
+must interoperate with it.  The majority of computer programs and web
+sites (85% in one estimate) do not comply with accessibility standards
+and guidelines, so they do not work with access technology.  They
+provide a frustrating experience, and can bar users from job or school
 activities.</p>
 
-<p>Proprietary file formats that require proprietary reading programs are
-poison to both accessibility and to the freedoms that we as free
+<p>Proprietary file formats that require proprietary reading programs
+are poison to both accessibility and to the freedoms that we as free
 software activists hope to establish. The biggest offender is Flash
 format; it usually requires proprietary software that doesn't
 cooperate with accessibility. Microsoft 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
+<acronym title="Portable Document Format">PDF</acronym> 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.</p>
 
 <p>People with disabilities deserve to have control of their own
@@ -44,51 +46,55 @@
 relatively unusual software, or who encounter a bug that keeps them
 from doing their job have no way to obtain the changes they need.
 These products are only changed or improved when the vendors see a
-business reason for doing the work; this leaves many users
-behind. As a secondary problem, proprietary access software is far
-more expensive than a PC. Many users cannot afford to give up their
-freedom in this way.</p>
+business reason for doing the work; this leaves many users behind.  As
+a secondary problem, proprietary access software is far more expensive
+than a PC.  Many users cannot afford to give up their freedom in this
+way.</p>
 
-<p>For users with disabilities, as for all other users, free software is
-the only way the users can control their own computing, their only
+<p>For users with disabilities, as for all other users, free software
+is the only way the users can control their own computing, their only
 chance to make software fit their needs rather than passively
 accepting whatever developers choose to offer them.</p>
 
-<p>Nations with large populations also have large numbers of people with
-disabilities. Countries including Brazil and Russia are discussing
-whether to standardize government purchases on GNU/Linux platforms.
-These nations are all signatories to the UN Convention on Human Rights
-and People With Disabilities, and include technology in their agenda
-for providing such rights. This will require them to hire programmers
-to work on accessibility software for their populations. If it is
-free software, the rest of the world will be able to use it too. The
-hackers who work on free access technology will provide tools that
-people with disabilities can use to expand their horizons enormously.</p>
+<p>Nations with large populations also have large numbers of people
+with disabilities.  Countries including Brazil and Russia are
+discussing whether to standardize government purchases on GNU/Linux
+platforms.  These nations are all signatories to the UN Convention on
+Human Rights and People With Disabilities, and include technology in
+their agenda for providing such rights.  This will require them to
+hire programmers to work on accessibility software for their
+populations.  If it is free software, the rest of the world will be
+able to use it too.  The hackers who work on free access technology
+will provide tools that people with disabilities can use to expand
+their horizons enormously.</p>
 
-<p>Ensuring that your application or web site is accessible is the right
-thing to do. And it fits naturally with free software.</p>
+<p>Ensuring that your application or web site is accessible is the
+right thing to do.  And it fits naturally with free software.</p>
 
-<h3>Recommendations.</h3>
+<h3>Recommendations</h3>
 
 <p>Application software developers should learn how to use the
-accessibility features of the IDE or toolkit they employ to build
-their user interface. Programmers who need to implement access
-technology, or work on a desktop or OS-level accessibility problem,
-will need to understand the accessibility API, and should choose the
-one that is compatible with free OS/desktops. These include the GNOME
-accessibility API (GNU/Linux platforms only), the Java accessibility
-API (GNU/Linux and Windows) and iAccessible2 (GNU/Linux and Windows).</p>
+accessibility features of the
+<acronym title="Integrated Development Environment">IDE</acronym> or
+toolkit they employ to build their user interface.  Programmers who
+need to implement access technology, or work on a desktop or OS-level
+accessibility problem, will need to understand the accessibility
+<acronym title="Application Programming Interface">API</acronym>, and
+should choose the one that is compatible with free OS/desktops.  These
+include the GNOME accessibility API (GNU/Linux platforms only), the
+Java accessibility API (GNU/Linux and Windows) and iAccessible2
+(GNU/Linux and Windows).</p>
 
 <p>Web developers should follow the guidelines at
-<a href="http://www.w3c.org/wai";>http://www.w3c.org/wai</a>
-and, for complex web applications, the developers should follow the
-Aria standard, also to be found at the World Wide Web Consortium web
-site. FANGS enables web developers to see how a screen reader will
-handle the web pages they are developing. Nontrivial Javascript code
+<a href="http://www.w3c.org/wai";>http://www.w3c.org/wai</a> and, for
+complex web applications, the developers should follow the Aria
+standard, also to be found at the World Wide Web Consortium web site.
+FANGS enables web developers to see how a screen reader will handle
+the web pages they are developing.  Nontrivial Javascript code
 distributed to the user should be free software
-(<a 
href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html";>http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html</a>),
 and please don't
-invite users to do something on a server that they could conceivably
-do on their own computers.</p>
+(<a 
href="/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html</a>),
+and please don't invite users to do something on a server that they
+could conceivably do on their own computers.</p>
 
 </div>
 <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
@@ -112,7 +118,7 @@
 translations of this article.
 </p>
 
-<p>Copyright 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
 
 <p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-No
 Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this
@@ -121,14 +127,13 @@
 or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300,
 San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.</p>
 
-<p>The Recommendations section may also be used under the Creative Commons
-Attribution license, and may be relicensed to the GNU Free Documentation
-License version 1.3 or later.</p>
+<p>The Recommendations section may also be used under the Creative
+Commons Attribution license, and may be relicensed to the GNU Free
+Documentation License version 1.3 or later.</p>
 
-<p>
-Updated:
+<p>Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2010/03/31 20:07:56 $
+$Date: 2010/04/26 13:21:15 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>
@@ -136,20 +141,20 @@
 <div id="translations">
 <h4>Translations of this page</h4>
 
-<!-- Please keep this list alphabetical by language code. -->
-<!-- Comment what the language is for each type, i.e. de is German. -->
-<!-- Write the language name in its own language (Deutsch) in the text. -->
-<!-- If you add a new language here, please -->
-<!-- advise address@hidden and add it to -->
-<!--  - /home/www/html/server/standards/README.translations.html -->
-<!--  - one of the lists under the section "Translations Underway" -->
-<!--  - if there is a translation team, you also have to add an alias -->
-<!--  to mail.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases -->
-<!-- Please also check you have the language code right; see: -->
-<!-- http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php -->
-<!-- If the 2-letter ISO 639-1 code is not available, -->
-<!-- use the 3-letter ISO 639-2. -->
-<!-- Please use W3C normative character entities. -->
+<!-- Please keep this list alphabetical by language code.
+     Comment what the language is for each type, i.e. de is German.
+     Write the language name in its own language (Deutsch) in the text.
+     If you add a new language here, please
+     advise address@hidden and add it to
+      - /home/www/html/server/standards/README.translations.html
+      - one of the lists under the section "Translations Underway"
+      - if there is a translation team, you also have to add an alias
+      to mail.gnu.org:/com/mailer/aliases
+     Please also check you have the language code right; see:
+     http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
+     If the 2-letter ISO 639-1 code is not available,
+     use the 3-letter ISO 639-2.
+     Please use W3C normative character entities. -->
 
 <ul class="translations-list">
 <!-- English -->