- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:21:52 -0700
- To: "jonathan chetwynd" <jonathan@signbrowser.free-online.co.uk>
- Cc: "Carine Ullom" <carine@ukans.edu>, "'Web Accessibility Initiative'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
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/>
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