Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
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I have always considered that looking after the needs of blind and visually impaired people was a top priority when making a website. Not only because it is nice to look after the needs of these people, but also because I always see spiders and crawlers like blind machines trying to make sense of my websites, and making a blind-friendly website should in theory lead to a perfectly crawlable website.
The Google search for the visually impaired seems like a good idea (search snippets limited to one, long line; no AdWords).
But it confuses me because:
- For any given search, Google Accessible Search returns approx. 10 times less results than Google. Does it mean that 90% of the sites are inaccessible?
- For the reason explained above, I always thought my websites were blind-friendly. In fact, I have already sold sightseeing tours in New Zealand for blind clients who had found me through the regular Google, and corresponded with me through their Braille keyboard! However my websites perform very poorly (they can hardly be found, in fact) on this Google Accessible Search. Instead, you'll find on top sites that have navigation menus made of images only (without alt attributes), or sites dedicated to images mainly (i.e. a site offering maps online); how useful is that to the blind? - It probably still needs a good tune-up.
But it confuses me because: ...
My site shows up with a description from a totally different site!
-- Roger
I was in there first godamn it!
:)
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