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Disability Statistics

Total of this list - 2,911,000 (5%)
Total disabled people in GB (all disabilities) - 6,537,000 (8.8%)

Statistics taken from Disability.gov.uk

Browser statistics at September 2003

Browser Version Amount of users Percentage
Internet Explorer 6.0 268,562 36.18%
Internet Explorer 5.5 180,062 24.26%
Internet Explorer 5.01 118,890 16.02%
Internet Explorer 5.0 39,541 5.33%
Mozilla 1.0.1 24,874 3.35%
Netscape 5.0 10,571 1.42%
Internet Explorer 4.01 4,976 0.67%
Netscape 4.7 3,066 0.41%
Total users 650,542  

Display statistics at September 2003

Screen Resolution Amount of users Percentage
1024x768 400,151 55.60%
800x600 128,138 17.81%
1280x1024 87,137 12.11%
1152x864 47,694 6.63%
1600x1200 22,142 3.08%
640x480 5,954 0.83%
Total users 691,216  

Operating System statistics at September 2003

Operating System Amount of users Percentage
Windows 2000 315,535 42.51%
Windows 98 175,231 23.61%
Windows XP 105,152 14.17%
Windows NT 75,527 10.18%
Windows ME 24,928 3.36%
MAC 15,426 2.08%
Total users 680,947  

Flash user statistics at September 2003

Flash Version Amount of users Percentage
Version 5 395,631 53.34%
Version 6 243,809 32.87%
Not installed 54,306 7.32%
Version 4 20,147 2.72%
Unknown 20,199 2.72%
Total users 734,092  

Javascript Enabled statistics
(Please note that screen readers cannot use Javascript and these figures are not included here).

Javascript enabled Javascript disabled
97.64% 1.73%

Statistics taken from Cyscape.com and are based on the information of visitors to their website.