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by unreal37 4389 days ago
The original Microsoft research paper she pulls the number "14%" from uses questions like "do you have a visual impairment?" to determine disability. So if you wear glasses or contacts, you're disabled apparently.
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agree, and trying to act like the internet is unusable by 14% of the population (all because they have a disability and those programmers and designers are ignoring their plight) raises red flags. over 1/10 people? really?

she claimed she doesn't know much about the process. which makes me wonder why write an article critiquing it then. but i can attest, making web pages usable/readable/etc to as many people as possible is always a huge part of the process.