At 04:56 PM 10/21/1999 +0100, jonathan chetwynd wrote: >According to UK education statistics 1 in 5 students (or 20% of students) in >mainstream schools has Special Educational Needs. This naturally covers a >range of physical and cognitive disabilities including dyslexia, cerebral >palsy... Jonathan points out an important statistic here -- the number of _current_ disabled web users is far _less_ than the number of _potential_ disabled web users (which I've heard several times quoted as "around 20%") simply because for many of those people, using the web is a fruitless, frustrating experience! Better to look at the 12% who _can't_ use the web, than the 8% who have found a way to cope! -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@hwg.org> President, Governing Board Member HTML Writers Guild <URL:http://www.hwg.org> Director, Accessible Web Authoring Resources and Education Center <URL:http://aware.hwg.org/>Received on Friday, 22 October 1999 01:00:36 GMT
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