Re: # of disabled Web users

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 UTC