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).pa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/0024241/Oracle-Drops-Suns-Commitment-To-Accessibility?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/02/09/0024241"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/0024241/Oracle-Drops-Suns-Commitment-To-Accessibility?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2tn-hDm8UrTXClZCQ-NzuxPSkw4/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2tn-hDm8UrTXClZCQ-NzuxPSkw4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2tn-hDm8UrTXClZCQ-NzuxPSkw4/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2tn-hDm8UrTXClZCQ-NzuxPSkw4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/MgG6JZv0tyc" height="1" width="1"/

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