Accessibility Interest in HTMLWG (11th March 2008)
Only 2% of HTMLWG Participants had recorded their interest in accessibility by May 2007. 4.5% have now done so.
Recorded interest has more than doubled from from 2% to 4.5% over the past 10 months.
Method
- I did a case-insensitive substring match for “access”.
- I checked each match was being used in the sense of usability for disabled people.
- I counted each match being used in that sense for each section of the survey.
- I removed Participants I had already counted.
Background and Expertise Section
20 Participants, reordered alphabetically by last name:
- Chris Adams
- Denis Boudreau
- Laura Carlson
- Joseph D'Andrea
- Eric Daspet
- Ivan Enderlin
- Henrik Dvergsdal
- Karl Groves
- Thomas Higginbotham
- Bhasker V Kode
- Murray Maloney
- Charles McCathieNevile
- Ben Millard (me)
- Joshue O Connor
- Debi Orton
- Gregory Rosmaita
- Samuel Santos
- Justin Thorp
- Jason White
- Matthew Wilcox
Tasks Section
2 more Participants, reordered alphabetically by last name:
- Thomas Bradley
- Darren West
Other Sections
0 Participants in the other sections.
Analysis
- 22 out of 494 Participants (4.5%) have recorded interest in accessibility.
Silent Majority?
At the previous count:
- 74 of 460 Participants (16%) answered the tasks survey.
- 9 of 74 answers (12%) recorded an interest in accessibility.
- Perhaps 12% were interested but only 9 had recorded that interest?
Applying that idea to the current numbers:
- 119 of 494 Participants (25%) answered the tasks survey:
- 22 of 119 answers (18%) recorded an interest in accessibility.
- Perhaps 18% are interested but only 22 have recorded that interest?
If this is true, interest has risen by 50% from 12% to 18% over the past 10 months.
Related Groups
WAI interact with HTMLWG. This count only includes Participants within HTMLWG.
Conclusion
Only 2% last time and 4.5% this time actually recorded an interest in accessibility.
Recommendation
Please include “access” in your entry to any section of that survey if you are interested in usability for people with disabilities. Then your interest will be included in my next count.
If you have no interest accessibility but your name is counted here, contact me and I’ll correct this entry.