2008 Corporate Social Responsibility Report

Everyone should have access to the network, including people with disabilities. We seek to address the inequalities in access to technology that people with disabilities face by developing and supporting affordable, open-source solutions.

We seek to improve network accessibility by making the operating systems, applications, application frameworks, development tools, and document formats that run on the network more accessible. Our goals are to ensure that technology standards meet the needs of people with disabilities and to help create and support communities that develop open-source accessibility solutions.

Leadership

We're proud of our leadership in providing access to information technology, both in open source and the industry generally. In 2008, we demonstrated leadership in a number of ways.

• TEITAC
  We played a major role in the Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee's (TEITAC) April 2008 report, which endorsed the accessibility approach Sun pioneered more than a decade ago with the Java platform.
• OpenOffice.org 3.0 for Mac OS X Beta Support
  Our engineers in Hamburg helped develop the accessibility features in OpenOffice.org 3.0 for the Apple Mac. This is the first office suite that supports the Mac accessibility framework and is the first to work with the Mac VoiceOver screen reader for the blind.
• Mozilla Firefox 3.0 with Orca
  Sun is heavily involved in implementing new accessibility solutions for Web 2.0. Specifically, the Firefox 3.0 Web browser is the first browser to support the new Accessible Rich Internet Application (ARIA) specification. Web 2.0 applications that incorporate ARIA are also accessible on UNIX systems using the Sun-led Orca screen reader. Firefox 3.0 with Orca is recognized as being most accessible for Web 2.0 applications and is the standard by which others will be measured.
• GNOME Outreach Program Accessibility (GOPA)
  Sun is helping to coordinate the distribution of $50,000 in grant funding to improve GNOME accessibility.
• Mozilla Accessibility Grants to UNIX
  Sun is helping review the Mozilla Foundation's grants to improve UNIX accessibility.