- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:05:33 -0700
- To: Amy.Belanger@kohls.com
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 03:01 PM 10/23/2000 , Amy.Belanger@kohls.com wrote:
>A designer that I work with and I were discussing about the necessity of
>making the site we are creating accessible to the visually impaired. We
>were curious if there was any statistical information regarding percentages
>of US web users that are visually impaired or blind.
I don't know of any "firm" figures, but I like to refer to the
numbers from the Georgia Tech Internet Survey:
http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/user_surveys/survey-1998-10/graphs/general/q12.htm
If you find better sources of information you want to make a
persistent information resource which can be linked to by others...
--K
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Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/
Director of Accessibility, Edapta http://www.edapta.com/
Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/
AWARE Center Director http://www.awarecenter.org/
What's on my bookshelf? http://kynn.com/books/
Received on Monday, 23 October 2000 18:24:10 UTC