Perhaps you've read a book recently? Perhaps when you finished you picked up a newspaper and got the sports headlines, or went online and surfed some travel sites to book next year's summer holiday? Your local news stand easily has a hundred newspapers and magazines. If you have web access, you have billions of sites available to you. Unless, of course, you're blind, when accessing printed or net resources suddenly becomes a very different proposition.

Traditionally, blind people have had only limited means of accessing printed material. Braille is the most famous access method, but only a tiny proportion of blind people can read Braille - some 2% in the UK. Recent years have seen the wider adoption of audio recordings, but like Braille these suffer from a lack of immediacy - you want the news today, not to wait a week for it to be translated - and a blind user is usually reliant on sighted people, often volunteers, to produce the material. This reliance and the higher costs of producing alternative format materials such as audiotapes necessarily reduce the material available. This is a poor comparison with what is available to sighted users and their choice of material.

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Some browser threats are never visible, and their actions can go completely unnoticed until your bank balance shows illegal account activity, by then it's often too late. .

"A recent test of best-of-breed anti-virus vendors and Web browser anti-phishing filters revealed that more than half of active malware and phishing threats on the Internet go undetected, with an average detection rate of 37 percent for malware and 42 percent for phishing." Cyveillance, February 2009

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