[gui-talk] a search engine for the blind

[Sherri]

I never said it was neat, just an interesting article. I haven't tried it 
myself and as I said, I think it might be limiting.
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What do others think about this special Google search engine for the blind? 
I really don't want someone deciding for me what I am capable of reading or 
navigating
when I am looking for something on a search site.  I will even go a step 
further and say that I don't understand Google spending time on this at the 
expense of
working to solve other accessibility problems on their site.Can someone tell 
me what I'm missing here?  I understand that nothing is stopping me from 
using the
regular search engine, but I just don't understand what is so neat about 
this.

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:58:03 -0400, Sherri wrote:

>I ran across this article in a weekly newsletter I receive. I haven't tried
>this site yet, but thought this might be of interest. The link to get to 
>the
>entire article is at the bottom of this e-mail.

>Sherri
>> A Search Engine For The Blind: Google Unveils Accessible Web ...

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>by Chris Sabga
>Infopackets Gazette
>Infopackets Contributor

>Google has just unveiled Accessible Web Search, a search engine for the
>visually-challenged. Here's how it works: Regular Google sorts search
>results primarily by how relevancy, but Accessible Search takes it a step
>further by also listing pages will that will be easy for the blind to
>navigate. To meet Google's Accessible Web Search criteria, a web Site has
>to be "visually simple." That means it ...
>... Click to read the rest of the article (and our most recent articles)
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>http://www.infopackets.com/channels/en/windows/gazette/2006/20060726_a_search_engine_for_the_blind_google_unveils_accessible_web_search.htm

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