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Google heading towards improved accessibility
- 16 Nov 06, 02:01 PM
Sometimes small changes can have a dramatic effect. Google has changed the coding on the page that displays the results for a search. They have introduced heading tags to each of the links.
Heading tags are more or less what you probably think they are. Just as a book has a title, and chapters, and maybe sub-headings to give the reader an idea of how the book is structured, so heading tags do the same for a web page.
So what makes this such an exciting development? Well, screen reader users can jump from one heading to another. On a page of search results this means they can jump from one result to the next, missing out the description and 鈥渃ached鈥 and 鈥渟imilar pages鈥 links at the bottom. It dramatically decreases the amount of time it takes to skim through search results.
Or to put it another way 鈥 usability has been dramatically enhanced with just a minor tweak of the code.
It's great to see these kinds of improvements from a company like Google. They have also produced an . And we covered Google introducing a closed captioning feature for video in an earlier blog.
As well as making life easier for users, when a company of the stature of Google starts becoming aware of accessibility, it raises the profile of the issues. And this is something that many companies still need to be made aware of.
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Good and bad result. They don't use them for structure, they are all h2 tags. So basically they are just using them so screenreaders will have something to use to flip through the contents.
Well its a step in the right direction as far as accessibility is concerned. 大象传媒 search does this a little better though, imho, they have structure to groups of results.
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