On Jul 20, 2006, at 7:37 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
Further ghetoizing us is google now suddenly trying too become the authority on what is good for us.
This would probably more true if you *had* to use the Google accessibility search. Perhaps one could look at it as just one more resource - a help, perhaps, if you're interested - for a particular search - in winnowing out pages which do not follow guidelines for b/ vi accessibility.
I'n not sure it's 'ghettoizing' anymore than efforts to standardize accessibility (Section 508 etc.) are 'ghettoizing'.
At the very least, it's certainly an interesting experiment (note: still under the Google "labs" umbrella). What do we mean exactly when we say something is or is not accessible to the blind and vi (keeping in mind that this is a diverse community)? How can we design web resources universally? What do the Google accessibility search results really mean? etc., etc. Good for discussion and bringing attention, no? Hard for me to see where the harm could be.
What do you think? Joe
