[thelist] Re: basics of adaptive technology browsers

Ryan Finley RyanF at SonicFoundry.com
Fri Jun 8 15:50:05 CDT 2001


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>The only one I can think of offhand is thecounter.com, which in a traffic 
>study of March 2001 cited 20% of surfers not using JavaScript.
>http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2001/March/javas.html
>
>20% is probably the highest number I ever ran across.  Most anything else I

>read reported 10-15%.

Depends on your audience segment, of course.

For people using assistive technologies, the numbers are way,
way higher (100% in some subsegments). And these are people
have the force of law behind them to ensure that your site is
accessible to them in some countries (UK, Australia, some US
sites).

>>

It's interesting how the responsibility on the people designing the sites,
rather than on the people who design the browsers.

Why does javascript have to be in the way of screen-reading software?

It is much easier to control the vendors of browser software...rather than
every web page designer on the planet!


	Ryan Finley
	President - SurveyMonkey.com (http://www.surveymonkey.com)




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