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Re: When will developers be able to rely on ARIA?

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From: Al Sparber
Date: Mar 4, 2009 6:55PM

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> Those statistics are not representative of the general population, they
> are representative of code geeks like us that visit that site.
>
> As far as I've been able to gather, the percentage of people with
> javascript disabled is actually closer to 10% these days.

It could very likely be close to 10%, which seems like a much higher
percentage than the number of people who are visually impaired to the extent
that they need to use an assistive reader.