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NOTE: The table from which the content used in the following examples is excerpted appears in an article entitled "Demographics Update", as published in the September-October 1997 (Volume 91, Number 5) issue of the American Foundation for the Blind's Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB).
This table uses a transparent GIF and ALT text to associate a symbol with each column heading. The symbol is then repeated as ALT text for the transparent GIF that precedes the content of each cell. Thus, when the table degrades when rendered by a text-based browser, the user is provided with an aural, visual, and/or tactile means of instantaneously associating linearly presented cellular information with its corresponding header.
| TABLE 1: Selected statistics about people who are
blind or visually impaired in the United States, c. 1990. |
||
|---|---|---|
Visual status![[Legend=*]](blank.gif){kind=small} |
Prevalence |
Employment rate (percentage) |
| Functional limitation in
seeing(includes severe
functional limitation) |
9.7
millionb |
46 |
| Severe functional limitation in seeing |
1.6
millionb |
26 |
| Legal blindness |
1.1
millionc |
N/A |
| Light perception or less |
220,000c |
N/A |
| No light
perception |
110,000c |
N/A |
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| TABLE 1: Selected statistics about people who are
blind or visually impaired in the United States, c. 1990. |
||
|---|---|---|
| Visual status |
Prevalence |
Employment rate (percentage) |
| Functional limitation in seeing(includes severe functional limitation) |
9.7
millionb |
46 |
| Severe functional limitation in seeing |
1.6
millionb |
26 |
| Legal blindness |
1.1
millionc |
N/A |
| Light perception or less |
220,000
c |
N/A |
| No light
perception |
110,000
c |
N/A |
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| TABLE 1: Selected statistics about people who are
blind or visually impaired in the United States, c. 1990. |
||
|---|---|---|
|
Visual status |
Prevalence |
Employment rate
(percentage) |
| Functional limitation in seeing(includes severe functional limitation) |
9.7 millionb |
46 |
| Severe
functional limitation in seeing |
1.6 millionb |
26 |
| Legal blindness |
1.1 millionc |
N/A |
| Light
perception or less |
220,000c |
N/A |
| No
light perception |
110,000c |
N/A |
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