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January 4, 2006

Google gets ADA support

Posted by Susan Esparza

To celebrate the birthday of Louis Braille, Google has embraced the non-sighted with their holiday logo: a representation of Google's name in Braille dots. Unfortunately, my monitor must not support the program they used because I can't feel a thing when I touch the screen. Google is probably working on that.

The logo links to the SERP for [Louis Braille birthdate] rather than just [Louis Braille]. Wikipedia gets the top position thanks to a special result.

Joking aside, today is an excellent time to take a look at your pages and see if they adhere to ADA standards. Imagine a screen reader trying to read your page. Will the information be clear and easy to understand or will a client using screen reader be driven away by stuffed ALT tags? Making your page usable will also help SEO it--your page will be more focused and informative if you remember that spiders, like Louis Braille, are blind.

Posted at January 4, 2006 1:47 PM
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