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"At the same time, 280 North is a three person company, developing our own products to support our business, and developing Cappuccino in the open to benefit everyone. We can’t program every feature needed in Cappuccino all at once, but that’s part of why we’re embracing open source. If people feel strongly about WAI ARIA, I encourage them to get in touch with us about helping to add support to Cappuccino. It isn’t an area we have a great deal of expertise in, but we’re happy to learn new things, and this is absolutely a problem we want to work on."

RossBoucher.Com » Funk Rock » Blog Archive » Accessibility & Degradation in Cappuccino. Ross makes an important distinction here: it’s one thing to complain about the closed product 280 Slides being inaccessible. But to complain that the open source Cappuccino framework doesn’t support a feature that you consider crucial is to miss the point of open source. Drew has valid points, of course, but he goes a bit far in assigning the bulk of the responsibility to 280 North.