Hi Peter,
I completely agree with your point: Igalia, F123 and Hypra could
work together. The fact is that F123 and Hypra have few financial
resources just now, because they focus on accessibility where it
is difficult to build any economical model in a few time, and
because in some countries, people have not money enough in
general.
Igalia has much more success, but they dedicate their resources
to their workflow, obviously, focused on what they are ordered by
customers. It seems they mainly work on Web stuff. It results they
cannot get invoved in all the development projects where
accessibility is needed. Typically we could not go together on a
Libreoffice tender with non-regression tests due to lack of
resources and uncertainness of result. And it is understandable,
as their activity is not a11y-only focused.
The purpose of this fund raising is then focusing financial
resources in a focus-accessibility project, to get a long-term
improvement via non-reg tests, and carried by an economical model
to expand free software to blind and poor vision people, and to
maintain this fund raising on a long-term via possible returns on
investments, self-ativity, to get free software accessibility
long-term funded, and not submitted to dated efforts as we
experienced with Sun.
Regards,
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Le 21/11/2017 à 12:25, Peter Vágner a
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Hey guys,
I am sure hypra and f123 have great intentions, however I
would say we might do better when we manage to to do this even
on a slightly higher scale.
We need to raise a bit more awareness, we need more
expertise and what we need the most are contacts with other
main stream developers where we can try to motivate more
accessibility developments.
Yesterday I had no suggestions because it seems there is no
stable company with accessibility experts and interests in
leading open-source development.
After reading this Planet Igalia recap
http://frederic-wang.fr/review-of-igalia-s-web-platform-activities-H1-2017.html
I would say we need to try showing more funding opportunities
to Igalia also working together where possible trying to
stimulate their accessibility development with contribution
from other organizations like Hypra or F123 or even
volunteers. Igalia is awesome company, is known for a while
and I hope when it can recognize additional flow of funding
the accessibility might again be seen as a bit higher priority
than it is being tackled right now.
Have you checked how much Hypra vision overlaps with
theirs?
I would say this might really get interesting.
You can see they do still have some accessibility top stars
on their board.
Greetings
Peter
