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From: Steve Green
Date: Jan 22, 2020 2:10PM

Those figures are 9 months out of date. The stats at https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/android/mobile-tablet/worldwide are only a month old. They show Android 5.x usage at 7.5%, which you may well consider too large to ignore. Android 6 is 11%, Android 7.x is 12.5% and Android 8.x is 22%. That means that 53% have lower than Android 9.

For Apple devices, it's worth noting that perfectly usable devices can be limited to quite old iOS versions. For instance, the iPad 4 can only be upgraded to iOS 10, yet it would be more than adequate for many people. In fact we have just given a perfectly serviceable iPad 3 to a good cause, and that's limited to iOS 9.

If you don't report the headings under 1.3.1, the "Technologies relied on" section of your conformance statement would need to include "android:accessibilityHeading".

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd