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Why Open & Free Technology?

• Focussed on emerging open accessibility standards & tech.
• Open technologies can be used and developed by anyone
• Open licenses mean that ideas can be shared between standards
• E.g. IAccessible2 (Windows) and ATK (Linux) are quite similar
• Potential for innovation and flexibility is extraordinary
• NVDA developers have actively contributed to IAccessible2
• NVDA supports IAccessible2 - at the forefront
• NVDA can be the first to show how new things can be done
• We strive to support other open source initiatives first - E.g. Mozilla