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Re: Assistive Technologies / Screen Readers & Google Analytics

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Feb 21, 2014 9:10AM

Greg,

I wrote a long response on the ins & outs of browser & feature detection
and deleted it mostly for one reason: detecting AT or AT-based features is
missing the point entirely.

In terms of sheer numbers there are more people who are Low Vision than
Blind. There are more people with motor impairments than visually impaired
& hard of hearing people combined.

There are more people with cognitive disorders than visually impaired, hard
of hearing, or motor impaired.

While there may be few cases where detecting software-based AT might be
useful, there are plenty of hardware-based AT that you'd be missing.

Looking at accessibility as a way to serve a specific population is missing
the point that accessibility is about inclusion of all people.


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Greg Gamble < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Well, how do they now a wheelchair can access it then? I'd think they
> (people with disabilities), would care less if they are tracked. So long
> as they are not singled out and the information is used correctly, why
> would they? And how would those who are trying to make things, "just work",
> do that if they didn't know what to make work or what did work?
>
> I'm not an expert on this, but I have an acquaintances that uses AT and
> she could care less on how things are made, so long as it works for her. So
> identifying and tracking those individuals makes sense to me ... so long as
> it's not used in a discriminatory way. IMO
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> Greg
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