interesting data point on preferred computers/browser types

[Lisa Rein]

just for the record, if I'm not mistaken, there is nothing ordinary
about that particular internet cafe charles was in :-) 

That place is NOTHING like most generic internet cafes i have been to
from CA to NY (only in us, yes) but the slowest machine in those babies
was an imac :-)

lisa

Ann Navarro wrote:
> 
> On the W3C WAI Interest Group mailing list,  Charles McCathieNevile
> <charles at w3.org>, made the following observation:
> 
> "...I am currently sitting in an ordinary Internet cafe in Seattle,
> where half the terminals are text-only VT100 terminals and half are
> multimedia-capable Windows 95 or Macintosh G3 machines. I am about to be
> kicked off my line-mode terminal (there is a 60-minute limit when there are
> people waiting for them) and forced onto a multimedia terminal. This is not
> because there are people with disabilities, just through popular demand. It
> seems that the industry perception that accessibility is only for a very
> small group is just plain wrong, at least in this random (if statistically
> insignificant) sample...."
> 
> While the discussion was about disabilities, it also directly applies to
> computers and their equipment.
> 
> Ann
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