Posts Tagged ‘ google ’

I love new gadgets, virtual as well as physical. So, I can’t help liking Google Labs. Google rolls out experimental features, both fun ones and useful ones, for Gmail through Labs. I have always wanted a simple taks manager that integrated right into my email. Now Google offers Gmail Tasks. While still rough around...
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Google Experimental Search has a great experiment for the visually impaired. Accessible View is one of several experimental ways to access Google search results. The first key feature of Accessible View is keyboard navigation. Second, the selected search result is magnified for easier viewing. There is automatic integration with your screen reader or talking...
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Product manuals are frustrating. For, as my dad puts it, they are usually written in a language tantalizingly close to English. Just as irritating, manuals are often printed in tiny font sizes, making them very inaccessible. A few years ago, I was looking for a misplaced manual in vain. So I went on the...
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Google’s iPhone app brings most of Google’s many applications under one roof. It refers most features to that application’s mobile web site. Google Talk is one of these applications. Since my wife and I are one of those couples that instant message each from one room to the other, I wanted to test this...
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To keep track of all the blogs I like to follow, I use Google Reader. It has a nice clean interface and works in any browser from anywhere. So, I naturally wanted to check this out for the iPhone. Like most of Google’s online applications, access to Google Reader is through its mobile web...
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Thanks to lodroridgzin, I ran acroos a web-based screen reader, WebAnywhere. WebAnywhere is a non-visual interface to the web that requires no new software to be downloaded or installed. It works right in the browser, which means you can access it from any computer, even locked-down public computer terminals. WebAnywhere enables you to interact...
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I downloaded the beta version of the next iteration of Google’s Chrome browser. The big accessibility improvement is the switch from text zoom to full page zoom. From the Zoom – Google Chrome Help page. If you’re using Google Chrome Beta, try out the new full-page zoom functionality. Go to the Page menu and...
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Google Maps is a great thing. There is no question about it. But it is not perfect. Surprisingly, it suffers from the same gripe I have with map books and atlases. I can not read the print. It is simply too small, no matter how much you zoom in. This is true both on...
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I keep all my contact and calendar information on Google. Google is convenient, ubiquitous and easy to use. when I brought my new iPod Touch home, I was excited to set up my e-mail, contacts and calendar on the device. Setting up my e-mail went smoothly enough. The difficulty begin when I tried to...
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Last week, Google announced that its Book Search would be available for iPhone and other mobile device users. I like to read, so I thought I would see how it works and how accessible it is. I looked at another e-book reader, Stanza, in an earlier post, so I will look at the differences....
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Google Earth is a profoundly visual program. It is fun to watch the program zoom in and out, moving around the planet with breathtaking visual effect. It is useful to learn about the geography, both topographic and human, of particular locations. In the end, Google Earth is fundamentally visual, so why would it be...
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Microsoft’s Comfort Optical 3000 Mouse allows the user to zoom in on the cursor with the click of a mouse button. Although, I have not tried it yet, it seems like a great little feature for visually-impaired users. I am quite happy with my wireless Logitech mouse. It is quite configurable, so I could...
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Following up on my earlier post about the lack of accessible Vista themes and my current feelings on standard internet color schemes, I posted the following to the accessible Google Group: Alternative Google Color Schemes – accessible | Google Groups< For the visually impaired, Google’s (as well as MS and most websites) color scheme...
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This, Google Accessible Search: “Accessible Web Search for the Visually Challenged”. looks to be a great new resource for the visually impaired. Not only does it provides better place for the visually impaired to search, but should also put pressure on all web developers to create more accessible web sites. If you find this...
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