Re: Zoom / Reflow SC understanding doc updated

Perhaps...
The benefits are primarily for people with low vision. Of the 285 million
people worldwide who are visually impaired 245 million (86%) have low
vision according to the World Health Organization (WHO)
<http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs282/en/>.
or
The benefits are primarily for people with low vision, 245 million people
worldwide who are visually impaired have low vision according to the World
Health Organization (WHO)
<http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs282/en/>.

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 3:14 AM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
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> Hi David,
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> Fair point, I think that was left-over from making the point to the group,
> so I’ll remove that.
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> I’d like to keep in the 400% references given that the first line of the
> understanding explains that is the aim.
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> Cheers,
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> -Alastair
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> *From:* David MacDonald [
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> ​I'm a little uncomfortable with the benefits section where it compares
> low vision users to blind users. I don't think its a helpful narrative. ​If
> the point is that we should do this, I think simply saying that there are x
> number of low vision users is sufficient.... if we start down this
> comparing path then we'll be some saying there are 10 times more people
> with cognitive disabilities than low vision... it's not really a road we
> want to go down on our official understanding docs.
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> Cheers,
> David MacDonald
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