[blindlaw] Google search for the blind and visually impaired

[Rumpole]

Click on this link and you're there
http://labs.google.com/accessible/

Ross
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From: "Ray Wayne" <RWayne1 at nyc.rr.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Google search for the blind and visually impaired


> How does one access this?
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> From: "Elizabeth Akinola" <elizabetha at ecnv.org>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 12:42 PM
> Subject: [blindlaw] Google search for the blind and visually impaired
>
>
> http://labs.google.com/accessible/
>
> Accessible Search FAQ
>
> What is Google Accessible Search?
>
> Accessible Search is an early Google Labs product designed to identify and
> prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and
visually
> impaired users. Regular Google search helps you find a set of documents
that
> is most relevant to your tasks. Accessible Search goes one step further by
> helping you find the most accessible pages in that result set.
>
> How does Accessible Search work?
>
> In its current version, Google Accessible Search looks at a number of
> signals by examining the HTML markup found on a web page. It tends to
favor
> pages that degrade gracefully --- pages with few visual distractions and
> pages that are likely to render well with images turned off. Google
> Accessible Search is built on Google Co-op's technology, which improves
> search results based on specialized interests.
>
> Why is Google offering this?
>
> Accessible Search is a natural and important extension of Google's overall
> mission to better organize the world's information and make it universally
> accessible. Google Accessible Search is designed to help the visually
> challenged find the most relevant, useful and comprehensive information,
as
> quickly as possible.
>
> In the past, visually impaired Google users have often waded through a lot
> of inaccessible websites and pages to find the required information. Our
> goal is to provide a more useful and accessible web search experience for
> the blind and visually impaired.
>
> How do you decide which sites are "accessible" and which are not?
>
> Broadly, Google defines accessible websites and pages as content that the
> blind and visually challenged can use and consume using standard online
> technology, and we've worked with a number of organizations to determine
> which websites and pages meet those criteria. Our methods for identifying
> accessible pages and content are always evolving; Currently we take into
> account several factors, including a given page's simplicity, how much
> visual imagery it carries and whether or not its primary purpose is
> immediately viable with keyboard navigation.
>
> How can sites make their content more accessible to the blind?
>
> Some of the basic recommendations on how to make a website more usable and
> accessible include keeping Web pages easy to read, avoiding visual clutter
> -- especially extraneous content -- and ensuring that the primary purpose
of
> the Web page is immediately accessible with full keyboard navigation.
There
> are many organizations and online resources that offer Website owners and
> authors guidance on how to make websites and pages more accessible for the
> blind and visually impaired. The W3C publishes numerous guidelines
including
> Web Content Access Guidelines <
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/>
> that
> are helpful for Website owners and authors. Broad adherence to these
> guidelines is one way of ensuring that sites are universally accessible.
>
>
>
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