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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:Microsoft.com NOT "accessible" by MudButt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What do those links have to do with the accessibility of the sites you mentioned? You just linked to an accessible version of google.

  2. What was that again? by nick1000 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Apparently Google accessible search(GAS) is not that accessible.
    http://www.google.com/u/accessible?cx=accessible!& q=google+accessible+search&btnG=Search

    Assuming that this actually works and GAS is easy to use for the disabled then shouldn't it return itself as a top result.