Google Enhances Search for Visually Impaired
From: MacNewsWorld - 07/20/2006
By: Erika Morphy

Google's latest tweak to its search engine, Accessible Search, allows the
visually and learning impaired an easier way to search its results. The
system favors pages with fewer visual distractions that are still readable or
easy to navigate even with images turned off. 

Google has launched a new service for the visually and learning impaired
designed to make search easier by ranking search results according to how
clean, or easy-to-read the Web pages are. 

Called Accessible Search, Google's latest tweak to its search engine comes
out of Google Labs. According to its FAQ section, Accessible Search looks at
a number of signals when ranking the pages, by examining the HTML markup
found on a Web page.  

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Submitted by Jamie Prioli

Links:
Accessible Web Search for the Visually Impaired
http://labs.google.com/accessible/

Google Search Accessible for the Blind
http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/searchinsider/wpn-49-20060721GoogleSearchAccessibleFortheBlind.html

Finding easy-to-read web content
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/finding-easy-to-read-web-content_20.html

Google Tests Accessible Search Page
http://www.betanews.com/article/Google_Tests_Accessible_Search_Page/1153424136

Google Accessible Search - Search without distraction!
http://www.seobuzzbox.com/google-accessible-search/

Google for the blind
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=7248

Google Now Offering Accessible Search
http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/2006/07/19/google-now-offering-accessible-search-2/

Google Launches Accessible Search
http://blog.usweb.com/archives/google-launches-accessible-search/

Google Accessible Search?
http://www.themoleskin.com/archives/google-accessible-search/

Google offers search for the visually impaired
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2160757/google-trials-accessible-search

Google Accessible Search
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-07-20-n88.html