Google Lauded for Accessible Search

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday July 23, 2006 @05:05AM from the ubiquitous-search dept.

With the recent release of a modified version of their search engine, Google is receiving praise from many different groups. The new Google Accessible Search was released as a Google labs project which prioritize pages based on their likelihood of being accessible to visually impaired users after the original search results are returned. From the article: "The best-known guidelines for building an accessible site are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) from W3C. But these are not the basis of Google's new service. Raman said: 'We don't test against WCAG. We think in the spirit of those guidelines, but we don't test against them verbatim.' Instead he endeavored to identify 'what works for the end-user,' describing a process of 'experimentation, training and machine learning.'"

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Re:In related news by Utopia · 2006-07-23 05:36 · Score: 5, Interesting

Here is a stupid fact:
Search for 'Search' on the goog lab's accessible search page.
MSN.com is listed as the first.

Does that make MSN.com the most accessible compliant search page?
I know/read that MSN.com has the highest complaince for CSS and HTML compared to the other portal pages.
But accessible I think not.