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Re: Wordpress high-contrast theme switcher finished

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From: Randall Pope
Date: Jan 21, 2009 1:25PM

Thank to everyone who responded. The reason for this question was I found
an entry in the web statistic page that show a person was using a Window 3.1
o/s and IE 4.0 to access our website. That really blew my mind away and had
me wondering how many are really using this system.

Just to let you all know, there is a group email list that focus on old
window o/s. The audience of this group are mostly diehard blind people who
just don't believe in using newer o/s.

With Warm Regards,
Randall "Randy" Pope
American Association of the Deaf-Blind
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jared Smith
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:15 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Wordpress high-contrast theme switcher finished

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Randall Pope < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Got a question for testing accessibility and older browser. Does anyone
use
> Netscape 4.x and IE 5.x to browse the web?

The stats I found indicate that it is less than .5 percent for
Netscape 4 and and IE 5 or lower combined.. Beyond maybe ensuring that
the content is readable and core functionality available, I wouldn't
worry about browsers that old. For the WebAIM site, they account for
about .15 percent of traffic, but more than half of our visitors are
using Firefox, so our stats are probably atypical.

Jared Smith
WebAIM