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Google, Facebook working on improving accessibility

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Did you know that Google has an experimental version of its search engine geared towards people with special needs in the area of accessibility? One feature: when search results load, they automatically skip the navigation and search interface.

Facebook is also making an effort to improve their site’s accessibility. Earlier this week, Carl Augusto, President of the American Foundation for the Blind, wrote a post for Facebook’s blog on the subject.

Google’s Accessibility Enchanced search engine

Facebook FAQs on accessibility

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Google’s fastest-rising search terms

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

On the search engine marketing front, Google has announced the newest, fastest-growing search terms for 2007. So, up on the chart, with a bullet….

  • iphone
  • webkinz
  • tmz
  • transformers
  • youtube
  • club penguin
  • myspace
  • heroes
  • facebook
  • anna nicole smith

OK, class, what I’d really like to see is someone using all those new vocabulary words in a sentence.

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Zeldman’s dashboard

Friday, September 14th, 2007

If you have OS X, you might want to check out Jeffrey Zeldman’s dashboard. I’ve swiped the screen shot (below); he’s got links to some of the widgets you see.

Zeldman's dashboard

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Blog? You must have misspelled…

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

Something I noticed: when you type the word “blog” into Word it triggers the spell-checker.

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