RE: PSPP and ADA compliance

[Charles Johnson]

Sure, it was just rhetoric.

However, some GNU applications have a concern to improve the accessibility and PSPP can benefit from a developer who wants to work at it. PSPP is not required by law, but may be useful and accessible if a volunteer developer working on it.


Cheers
CJT

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Subject: Re: PSPP and ADA compliance
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 10:14:42 -0600

I think the FSF lawyers would refer everyone to the GPL and it's waivers of suitability.

How would an application like PSPP be compliant or non-compliant with ADA?  This website:

http://www.interactiveaccessibility.com/services/ada-compliance

(which surely isn't legal advice) suggests that ADA does not apply to applications like PSPP (or, for that matter, SPSS) because they are not “places of public accommodation.”

But this is ultimately a question for the lawyers who would defend someone subject to the ADA (e.g., YSU), not for software developers.

-Alan

On 12/17/2015 10:02 AM, Charles Johnson wrote:

I think that's something you have to see the FSF's lawyers, however, if you mean to have accessibility options could resort to other applications depending on the operating system you use.

This element can also be considered as an improvement to present as topic in the google summer of code. (high contrast icons, integration with orca, etc).

Cheers

CJT

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Subject: PSPP and ADA compliance
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:46:58 +0000

Greetings. We are interested in knowing if PSPP is compliant with the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Thanks.


R.

Richard Lee Rogers

Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences

Youngstown State University

Phone: 330-941-3543

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