quite infrequent thoughts and opinions on web standards

« @media2006 | Main | CSS changes in IE7 »

July 28, 2006

Google to favor good markup

Google Accessible Search will identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired users thereby adding accessibility as a factor in the ranking of search results.

Comparing a few searches with regular Google gives, as expected, quite different results. Let's see what happens when (and if) this Google Labs products is incorporated into the regular Google search.

Let's also hope Google will give their own code an overhaul. Entering the search term "google" in Google Accessible Search returns a Wikipedia article on the company as first result...

Posted by Ake Johansson at July 28, 2006 03:19 PM | del.icio.us this

Trackback Pings

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.subtil.se/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/13