Eyes-free, ubiquitous information access

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 23, 2006 5:24 PM EDT
Reg Developer; By OUT-LAW.com
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A blind developer at Google has built a search engine to prioritise results that are accessible to visually impaired web users. The Google Labs project, launched last week, has been welcomed by RNIB and its US counterpart, AFB. Put a query into Google Accessible Search and a standard Google search begins. But before the results are presented, they are re-ordered to prioritise those pages identified as the most likely to be accessible to visually impaired users.

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