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Google Accessible Search Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-about-one-for-people-like-me dept.

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."

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  1. Re:At some point it doesn't matter... by McGiraf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Photoshop, blind, hum ... well

  2. w00h00 - text-based search engine by guruevi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally I can start using Links2 or even Lynx to start browsing or any other curses based browser... mmm... gopher. Will work perfectly with my pine mail and telnet based IRC.

    I really commend google for providing us and maybe even forcing webdevelopers to use decent, W3C compatible standards. This means soon enough, we'll have websites that aren't IE compatible.

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  3. Re:Still missing the point. by daeg · · Score: 2, Funny
    I found it amusing that the main page of the "accessible" search page uses:
    document.f.q.focus();
  4. Re:Accessible Content by Ryan+Stortz · · Score: 3, Funny

    I tried searching for Porn and the 5th link down was to this article on the Register that claims Porn makes you blind. :(

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  5. Damn, I'd better get to work updating my site! by Anita+Coney · · Score: 2, Funny

    From what I've read of the guidelines, my website gopher://gopherrulez.org just won't cut it!

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  6. Re:At some point it doesn't matter... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    "Photoshop, blind, hum ... well"

    Well, I've seen Photoshop user's skill levels, and this could explain a lot...