[ntnm] Re: Some interesting stats
- From: Ari Damoulakis <aridamoulakis@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ntnm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 22:42:52 +0200
Wow that's interesting! I'm curious, I really thought many more people
actually would have used the service? Just so that I have an idea,
does anyone know the number of blind people in the UK? Obviously there
are a few people I know who use the service from overseas, but I'm
actually quite shocked at how small the number is, especially to be
able to read the magazines and so on easily like that.
I know many people just think they want to do the whole mainstream
thing and just use the web or read the newspaper online, but I think
that's often just a case of them maybe not reading too avidly,
because, look for example here where I have to read my newspapers on
the internet. I don't really know about the UK paper sites, but its
just so much more time-consuming finding the sections, interesting
articles, and unfortunately South Africa just isn't known for caring
about accessibility most of the time, most people here love flash,
refreshing pages, just loads of things they're not worried about the
very small minority with access problems as much as they are there.
Ari
On 5/20/14, Derek Hornby <derek.hornby_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Neil Heslop, who is RNIB's director of Solutions
> Said on In Touch few weeks ago.
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> 4,000 customers, majority receive their material on audio via CD.
> 285 eText service and receive distribution through e-mail.
> 19 customers receive their material on CD-rom.
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