- From: Tom James <TJames@salisbury.gov.uk>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:00:20 +0100
- To: "'Section 508.US'" <tagi11@cox.net>, "'Ben Gilmore'" <beng@getfrank.com>, WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Macromedia claim a 97.4% penetration of the Flash plug-in > What was their claims based on? Number of computers sold with Flash > installed? > I would think that there are more that 3% total users of the > internet that > are blind. Why would a blind person use Flash???????? > Michael As I said, I'm a bit sceptical about the figure, but I'm only reporting the one that Macromedia report. On the URL I gave on their site, they do give the source of their figures. As for the question "why would a blind person use flash?". I guess they wouldn't. But I can imagine a scenario in which, for example, a blind user had a modern graphical browser (with Flash pre-installed) but also using a screen reader. Presumably, this would just report back to any stats-gathering package that Flash was installed. Which just says be careful; the numbers may (truthfully) say one thing but the actual ability to use may be something else altogether. Tom "Internet Communications are not necessarily secure, and therefore Salisbury District Council does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Any views or opinions presented are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Salisbury District Council. Anyone replying by email to the author of this message (or emailing anyone else, using the "@salisbury.gov.uk" address), is advised that such emails may be read by persons other than the intended recipient" ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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