The Gnome and KDE Accessibility Projects together with the Free Standards Group Accessibility Work group (FSG Accessibility) have issued a Statement On Desktop Accessibility Development. "We wish to allay any concern that our standardization efforts might be focused on any one particular toolkit or desktop technology to the exclusion of other toolkits and desktops. We believe it is imperative to preserve choice and to maximize available options for users. Therefore we are developing an accessibility standard based on functional performance criteria implemented in messaging protocols fully independent of any particular toolkit or desktop technology. We believe users who are persons with disabilities should be empowered to choose technologies from any and all environments which provide accessibility just as other desktop users today routinely use a mix of technologies from different desktop environments. Our goal is seamless interoperability." (Found on KDE.News and GnomeDesktop)

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