Amendment Act (1965) Architectural Barriers Act (1968) Education for Handicapped Children Act (1975) Fair Housing Amendments Act (1988) Image: Museum of Disability History <museumofdisability.org/virtual-museum/advocacy-wing/self-advocacy-exhibit/>
have cognitive disabilities 8% of men (and 0.5% of women) are color blind 9% of adults have vision trouble 15% of adults have physical functioning difficulty 17% of adults have hearing trouble CDC <www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/disability.htm> Colour Blind Awareness <www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/> UNH <www.disabilitycompendium.org/docs/default-source/2014-compendium/annual-report.pdf>
have cognitive disabilities 8% of men (and 0.5% of women) are color blind 9% of adults have vision trouble 15% of adults have physical functioning difficulty 17% of adults have hearing trouble — 100% of people will be disabled in some way, at some point CDC <www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/disability.htm> Colour Blind Awareness <www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/> UNH <www.disabilitycompendium.org/docs/default-source/2014-compendium/annual-report.pdf>
is emerging as other markets have in the past— 1.3 billion people and $1.2 trillion in annual disposable income Return on Disability <www.rod-group.com/insights>
of black adults 50% of Hispanic adults — 37% of adults who make $20k–$50k/year 59% of adults who make under $20k/year — 45% of adults in rural areas Pew <www.pewinternet.org/2015/12/21/home-broadband-2015/>
of mobile connections in Canada OpenSignal <opensignal.com/reports/2016/02/state-of-lte-q4-2015/> Ericsson <www.ericsson.com/res/docs/2014/regional-appendices-sea-final-screen.pdf>
of mobile connections in Canada 47% of mobile connections in the UK 51% of mobile connections in India OpenSignal <opensignal.com/reports/2016/02/state-of-lte-q4-2015/> Ericsson <www.ericsson.com/res/docs/2014/regional-appendices-sea-final-screen.pdf>
of mobile connections in Canada 47% of mobile connections in the UK 51% of mobile connections in India 75% of mobile connections in Indonesia are 2G OpenSignal <opensignal.com/reports/2016/02/state-of-lte-q4-2015/> Ericsson <www.ericsson.com/res/docs/2014/regional-appendices-sea-final-screen.pdf>
turn it off or have a browser that doesn’t support it 0.9% have JS that messes up gov.uk <gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missing-out-on-javascript-enhancement/>
firewalls CDN failure flakey/dropped connections poorly-written JS ISP blocking/manipulating scripts browsers without modern JS support 1.1% of visits get a broken JavaScript experience — 0.1% turn it off or have a browser that doesn’t support it 0.9% have JS that messes up gov.uk <gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missing-out-on-javascript-enhancement/>
is to build a reliable software platform on top of components that are completely unreliable. That puts you in an environment where complex failures are both inevitable and unpredictable. ” —Jesse Robbins ACM Queue <queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371297>