Search results access opened up in Google experiment
Web Design
06 November 2008
A new Google experiment is aiming to make search results more accessible to web users with a disability.
Accessible View is opt-in and allows users to navigate through Google listings with the aid of just a keyboard.
The experiment involves using various keyboard shortcuts to move from listing to listing, while also toggling between Accessible View and Accessible Search, an earlier Google accessibility initiative.
Users can also use a new tool to zoom in on specific results. The experiment was created based on Accessible Rich Internet Applications specifications from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), as well as Google-AxsJAX, a set of HTML DOM properties for rich media applications.
"The Accessible View experiment is another step toward making our search results more accessible for everyone," said research scientist T V Raman and software engineer Charles Chen of Google in a blog post.
Meanwhile, the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative recently published the second version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as a proposed recommendation, with final publication of the standards expected in December.
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