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When people whose goals are quite different from ours urge us to push for their goals, we should be very skeptical. What they are actually asking is that we drop our movement and join theirs instead. That is generally a mistake. With rare exceptions, what we should respond is, "We will keep pushing for our goals." > I think we can extract a specific and concrete suggestion from Pau > Amma's messages to move A+3 and A+4 into the C criteria. I guess that is what perse would prefer, given per goals. But that is not what we should do. > At the moment it seems consistent with the GNU Accessibility Statement > [0] which has support that such items as a "recommendation" and not a > requirement. That's why we made A3 and A4 optional: because accessibility is a secondary issue, not our primary goal. It is nice to have, but not what we fight for. What we fight for is respect for users' freedom. > There may be some merit to at least lowering them, as it could help > make websites more accessible to people with screen readers. I don't think there is any chance of that. Our influence on repo sites is very limited. If we start pushing for too many things, including secondary "nice things to have", we will dilute that influence, and be less effective at convincing sites to respect freedom. You basically said that yourself: > As it is > it seems difficult enough to convince code-hosting sites to meet the C > criteria even as it is, without nonfree JavaScript and etc. Adding more > requirements would make this already difficult challenge even moreso. We must stay focused on our purpose, and not give priority to tangential "nice things to have." -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)