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Subject:	RE: [cygwin] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Country Of Origin Verification - 8944
Date:	Wed, 17 Jun 2020 23:17:53 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT systematicsw DOT ab DOT ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11:00 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Cc: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron AT pdinc DOT us>; 'Watson, Christian M. (GRC-V000)[Peerless Technologies Corp.]'
> <christian DOT m DOT watson AT nasa DOT gov>; 'Pesich, Justin M. (GRC-LTF0)' <justin DOT m DOT pesich AT nasa DOT gov>
> Subject: Re: [cygwin] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Country Of Origin Verification - 8944
> 
> On 2020-06-17 18:44, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > section 508 concerns
> 
> Accessibility?
> The web site is plain XHTML, so about as vanilla as you get, but few id, alt,
> name, title and no ARIA attributes.

The US Government has many regulations. One of them is that the software used must be accessible. It is not about the Cygwin.com website. I have helped a few open source projects by writing a VPAT for them (https://www.section508.gov/sell/vpat).

> Volunteers may respond to feedback, but have little time for niceties, and no
> time for bureaucracy.

Well, that’s why there are more than one type of volunteer. I personally believe it is better to use Cygwin over other closed source or fragmented tool set alternatives.

-Jason

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