I understand this is not a good way to measure by any mean, but regardless let's do some math! Globally there are 43M blind people , According to WHO. There are over 250k NVDA users in 175 countries, According to NVDA creators. Let's just say 300k. According to screen reader survey #10, NVDA counts for 37.7%. That means only 1.85% of blind people have access to screen reader. 0.3M/0.377%/43M*100 That's very sad! :( Let me know if I epically failed this math. lol #GAAD

@chikim The vast, vast, vast majority of blind people are just old and want nothing to do with computers.

@miki @chikim Can pretty much confirm. Even really young blind people usually wish they could do everything on their phones.

@pixelate @chikim That's not even what I mean. I'm talking about the people that we don't really consider "blind", that aren't part of any community, lost their sight due to age, don't interact with anybody except whoever cares for them etc.

@miki @pixelate Good point! Globally 82% of blind people are over 50. If you adjust the stat to look only under 50 years old, it's 11.33%. I think also screen reader survey includes screen readers on mobile devices, so it's not just computer.

@chikim @miki @pixelate Also, I would say that Web Aim survey is an outlier in this formula. The sample is too small and it's not entirelyclear how representative! :) Then, as pointed out above, a lot of blind people have nothing to do with technology because of age or economical status. I think NVDA stats are probably quite good, I wish we had the same from other screen reader vendors′. This would give us better idea.