Google accessible web search

Writing about web page http://labs.google.com/accessible/

Google have just launched a new service: Accessible web search, a search engine which favours web pages which are more usable by visually impaired users. From their FAQ:–

Google Accessible Search looks at a number of signals by examining the HTML markup found on a web page. It tends to favor pages that degrade gracefully —– pages with few visual distractions and pages that are likely to render well with images turned off. [...] Currently we take into account several factors, including a given page's simplicity, how much visual imagery it carries and whether or not its primary purpose is immediately viable with keyboard navigation.

It's a Google Labs product so it's too early to say how well it'll persist and evolve. Clever idea, though.

John Dale : 21 Jul 2006 22:31 |  Tags: Google Tech |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem