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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.
"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."
Maybe this will add a little push to some vendor and government sites, at least, to conform to a few standards.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
It sounds nice, but I'd like to know more on how it works. I noticed my site gets bumped to the lower regions of the search results in Google Accessibility. I consider my site pretty accessible. It's all standards complient HTML and CSS and even works great in text browsers like lynx.
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Maybe this will add a little push to some vendor and government sites, at least, to conform to a few standards. http://www.w3.org/WAI/