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Re: Detection of adaptive technology

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From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Oct 10, 2008 8:20AM

Hi Hamish,

I'm with Winston Churchill when he said "the only statistics you can
believe are the ones you falsified yourself".

However, you may find this article useful. Steve Faulkner wrote a piece
on detecting AT, the current methods and limitations [1]

> we thought it would be a great stat if we
> had some idea of the numbers of visitors to our site that are using AT
> such as screen readers.

Thats one metric that could come back to bite you. In particular because
in comparison with normal (sic) use it will probably be quite low. Stats
like that, in particular if they are low, could then be used as a
rational for /not/ implementing an accessible solution in the first
place due to its relative standing when compared to non-AT users.

Cheers

Josh

[1] http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=61




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