With the recent release of a modified version of their search engine,
Google is receiving praise from many different groups. The new
Google Accessible Search
was released as a Google labs project which prioritize pages based on
their likelihood of being accessible to visually impaired users after
the original search results are returned. From the article:
"The
best-known guidelines for building an accessible site are the Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) from W3C. But these are not the
basis of Google's new service. Raman said: 'We don't test against WCAG.
We think in the spirit of those guidelines, but we don't test against
them verbatim.' Instead he endeavored to identify 'what works for the
end-user,' describing a process of 'experimentation, training and
machine learning.'"
