Disabilities

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Notes:

• Since the Web does not easily facilitate access by users with disabilities, it is not surprising that 91.7% the users do not report any disabilities. This is almost exactly the same percent reported in the Fourth Surveys (91.8%).

• Impaired vision is the most widely reported disability, but still only accounted for 3.7% of the responses. The other disabilities all were reported by less than 1% of the respondents apiece.

• Compared to the other surveys, the percent of respondents without impairments has remained quite stable. For the Third Survey, 91.8% reported no disabilities and for the Second Survey, 95% reported no disabilities.

• The proportions with impairments are consistent between the stratified segments of location and gender, but the age segmentation did reveal some differences. Elder users reported significantly more hearing, motor, and multiple impairments compared to the younger groups.

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Table of Data for All Categories

impaired	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
cogs	46 0.39%	35 0.44%	11 0.30%	41 0.48%	1 0.08%	12 0.44%	26 0.37%	6 0.62%
hearing	102 0.87%	76 0.94%	26 0.70%	83 0.96%	9 0.71%	16 0.58%	52 0.75%	24 2.46%
motor	116 0.99%	75 0.93%	41 1.11%	92 1.07%	3 0.24%	6 0.22%	76 1.09%	26 2.67%
multi	75 0.64%	51 0.63%	24 0.65%	59 0.69%	4 0.31%	11 0.40%	37 0.53%	21 2.16%
none	10761 91.69%	7380 91.73%	3381 91.60%	7872 91.44%	1182 93.07%	2534 92.62%	6440 92.65%	858 88.09%
not_say	200 1.70%	144 1.79%	56 1.52%	141 1.64%	27 2.13%	55 2.01%	94 1.35%	11 1.13%
vision	436 3.72%	284 3.53%	152 4.12%	321 3.73%	44 3.46%	102 3.73%	226 3.25%	28 2.87%

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GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280