Google Accessible Search Released 134
Philipp Lenssen writes "Google today released Accessible Search, a Google Labs product aiming to rank higher pages which are optimized for blind users. Google asks you to adhere to the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines if you want to make sure your pages are accessible (and thus, rank better on Google Accessible Search). I wrote a small tool to compare results of default and accessible results."
At some point it doesn't matter... (Score:4, Interesting)
Microsoft.com NOT "accessible" (Score:4, Interesting)
one of the best tool ever (Score:5, Interesting)
This could backfire (Score:4, Interesting)
No sponsored links (Score:2, Interesting)
Google Accessible in not according to W3C standard (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Still missing the point. (Score:5, Interesting)
Oh and he used Internet explorer. His software tied in with that so it looked like an ie hit and even tried to load all the crap everyone else deals with in IE. He did IE on windows using a dell.
Re:What? (Score:4, Interesting)
Perfect application! (Score:2, Interesting)
For Thruly accessible webpages (Score:3, Interesting)
The w3c check is not an acurate measure on how thruly accessible the pages are
I now this because I have friends who are blind and frecuently use screen reader applications
If you really want to make sure your pages are accessible then download the trial version of Jaws for Windows [freedomscientific.com] wich is the defacto standard screen reader. This trial is limited to 40 minutes per session, but those 40 minutes should be enough to test your webpages.
As mentioned in posts above, make sure the content can be reaced quickly by readers.
Re:Hmm... (Score:3, Interesting)
Wrong (Score:2, Interesting)