"Reaction [beta]"
Accessoogle? 24 Jul 2006
In case you missed it, Google unveiled Accessible Search last Thursday. Built upon Google's Co-op technology, Accessible Search is an "early-stage experiment" designed to help blind and visually-impaired people find web content that is best suited to their text-to-speech software.
Users simply enter a query and hit the "Search" button to receive a list of results prioritised by level of accessibility. Google defines accessibility as "pages that degrade gracefully - pages with few visual distractions and pages that are likely to render well with images turned off".
Providing one set of search results to disabled users and another to the rest of the population? Hmmm. Sounds like discrimination to us ;P Seriously though, won't it be great if Google's Accessible Search eventually replaces Google Search? Then organisations will have a real incentive to make their websites accessible!
See also: The definition of "accessoogle".
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2 comments so far
ty 24 Jul 2006 02:31 PM
that's cool, maybe it will be a nice way to find fresh CSS gallery-worthy sites. ;)
Etre 24 Jul 2006 03:35 PM
ty: Great idea - makes us wonder whether Accessible Search will become more popular amongst the visual design community than amongst the visually-impaired community!