“Accessible Search is an early Google Labs product designed to identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired users.”
http://labs.google.com/accessible/
Ironically the pages themselves are not marked up in an entirely accessible manner:
- They often fail to split the presentation from the mark up – <font color=#008000> meaning that it’s harder for the target audience to use their own colour schemes.
- They are still using a table based layout – sometimes nested to three levels
- The occasional use of non-relative font sizes : <font-size:9px>
- And more…
It’s a start though, and another string for our bow to encourage our clients to consider accessibility a must for their sites.
Whilst on the topic of search, here’s a semi interesting article on Search 2.0
