From: "Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron@pdinc.us>
To: <Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: "'Watson,
Christian M. \(GRC-V000\)[Peerless Technologies Corp.]'"
<christian.m.watson@nasa.gov>,
"'Pesich, Justin M. \(GRC-LTF0\)'" <justin.m.pesich@nasa.gov>
Subject: RE: [cygwin] Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Country Of Origin Verification - 8944
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 23:17:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18c301d6451f$0de6a390$29b3eab0$@pdinc.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <625bb286-98de-d527-eb22-ce5721348d56@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11:00 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Cc: Jason Pyeron <jpyeron@pdinc.us>; 'Watson, Christian M. (GRC-V000)[Peerless Technologies Corp.]'
> <christian.m.watson@nasa.gov>; 'Pesich, Justin M. (GRC-LTF0)' <justin.m.pesich@nasa.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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-18 3:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-11 15:59 Watson, Christian M. (GRC-V000)[Peerless Technologies Corp.]
2020-06-11 17:19 ` Brian Inglis
2020-06-17 15:37 ` [EXTERNAL] " Watson, Christian M. (GRC-V000)[Peerless Technologies Corp.]
2020-06-17 17:56 ` Bill Stewart
2020-06-17 18:04 ` Andrey Repin
2020-06-17 19:21 ` Marco Atzeri
2020-06-18 0:14 ` Brian Inglis
2020-06-18 0:44 ` [cygwin] " Jason Pyeron
2020-06-18 2:59 ` Brian Inglis
2020-06-18 3:17 ` Jason Pyeron [this message]
2020-06-18 3:16 ` Brian Inglis
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='18c301d6451f$0de6a390$29b3eab0$@pdinc.us' \
--to=jpyeron@pdinc.us \
--cc=Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca \
--cc=christian.m.watson@nasa.gov \
--cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
--cc=justin.m.pesich@nasa.gov \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).