[accessbangla] The new Google Accessible Search is available at
- From: "Vashkar Vattacharya" <vashkar79@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <accessbangla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 10:23:00 +0600
The new Google Accessible Search is available at
labs.google.com/accessible
This seems to be very good and helpful. Try it and
provide the
feedback to google.
More from FAQ from their site (
http://labs.google.com/accessible/faq.html)
FAQ follows.
Accessible Search FAQ
What is Google Accessible Search?
Accessible Search is an early Google Labs product
designed to identify
and prioritize search results that are more easily
usable by blind and
visually impaired users. Regular Google search helps
you find a set of
documents that is most relevant to your tasks.
Accessible Search goes
one step further by helping you find the most
accessible pages in that
result set.
How does Accessible Search work?
In its current version, 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. Google Accessible Search is built on
Google Co-op's
technology, which improves search results based on
specialized interests.
Why is Google offering this?
Accessible Search is a natural and important extension
of Google's
overall mission to better organize the world's
information and make it
universally accessible. Google Accessible Search is
designed to help
the visually challenged find the most relevant, useful
and
comprehensive information, as quickly as possible.
In the past, visually impaired Google users have often
waded through a
lot of inaccessible websites and pages to find the
required
information. Our goal is to provide a more useful and
accessible web
search experience for the blind and visually impaired.
How do you decide which sites are "accessible" and
which are not?
Broadly, Google defines accessible websites and pages
as content that
the blind and visually challenged can use and consume
using standard
online technology, and we've worked with a number of
organizations to
determine which websites and pages meet those
criteria. Our methods
for identifying accessible pages and content are
always evolving;
Currently we take into account several factors,
including a given
page's simplicity, how much visual imagery it carries
and whether or
not it's primary purpose is immediately viable with
keyboard navigation.
How can sites make their content more accessible to
the blind?
Some of the basic recommendations on how to make a
website more
useable and accessible include keeping Web pages easy
to read,
avoiding visual clutter -- especially extraneous
content -- and
ensuring that the primary purpose of the Web page is
immediately
accessible with full keyboard navigation. There are
many organizations
and online resources that offer Website owners and
authors guidance on
how to make websites and pages more accessible for the
blind and
visually impaired. The W3C publishes numerous
guidelines including Web
Content Access Guidelines that are helpful for Website
owners and
authors. Broad adherence to these guidelines is one
way of ensuring
that sites are universally accessible.
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Vashkar Vattacharya,
Program officer,
Young Power in Social Action (YPSA)
Focal Person of DAISY for all projects in Bangladesh
Convener ICT Thematic Group of NFOWD
E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxx, vashkar79@xxxxxxxxx
Web: www.ypsa.org
www.daisy-for-all.org
www.vashkar.tk
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