Re: Google accessible search gone
- From: "Michael Taboada \(AI5HF\)" <ai5hf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:44:57 -0500
You probably have instant search on, click on the link near the top of the page
that says "for screen reader users, click here to turn off google instant".
Hth,
-Michael.
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From: RicksPlace
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 4:07 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Google accessible search gone
Hi Jacob: I agree. I have been playing with the new Google page and not only is
it a pain to heading or tab around in, the heading does get you to headings but
they don't seem to be as clear as in the accessible version,andthe summary with
all the links and, or, onclicks can be slow to try and go through and tabbing
gets messy as well. There was a feature in the Accessible page where if I typed
a word incorrectly I could click on a popup that asked Did You Mean and I could
check the spelling if I made a typo.
But, it is what it is. I just have found using Google now much slower and less
efficient. I am trying to do some searches that would have given me headings
and summaruies that were quick, easy to read and relevant to my search in the
Accessible page. In the new page I get headings that don't seem to have any
identifying diferentiation, the summaries often are unclear and all have links
or onclicks and much of the content seems not to be relevant to my search. Oh
ya, after reading an article I get upt to the top of page and have to heading
all the way down to the last item read, tabbing would not work well - too many
hits. Anyway, it is what it is.
I looked at one yahoo search and it might be a better solution, I'm not sure
yet since I haven't had time to play with it or other search engines.
See you Later Jacob:
PS: I hit the letter "c" from the top of page to get to the search box, or the
search button just below it and that helps. Oh ya, I changed the contents of
the Search Box and found some other words added into it, perhaps they were
suggestions but I had to remove them to modify the search, another little pain.
Rick USA
----- Original Message -----
From: Jacob Kruger
To: ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 12:18 AM
Subject: Google accessible search gone
The google accessible search interface, which was here:
http://labs.google.com/accessible/
is now gone/inactive, and when looking for reasoning, I found the following
blog related to google's labs development/experiments, so seems will just have
to go back to using the normal google search for now...:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-wood-behind-fewer-arrows.html
Pity, since the accessible search interface was quite a bit cleaner, and also
ranked search results a bit differently based on the 'cleanliness' of their
content, but anyway.
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
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