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Posted by T.V. Raman, Research
Scientist
From time to time, our own
shares his tips on how to use Google from his perspective as a
technologist who cannot see — tips that sighted people, among
others, may also find useful.
The advent of RSS and ATOM feeds, and the creation of tools
like
>Google Reader for efficiently consuming content
feeds, has vastly increased the amount of information we access
every day. From the perspective of someone who cannot see, content
feeds are one of the major innovations of the century. They give me
direct access to the actual content without first having to dig
through a lot of boilerplate visual layout as happens with
websites. In addition, all of this content is now available from a
single page with a consistent interface.
Until now, I've enjoyed the benefits of
Reader using a
>custom client. Today, we're happy to tell
you that the "mainstream" Google Reader now works with
off-the-shelf screenreaders, as well as
self-voicing extension to Firefox. This brings the benefits of
content feeds and feed readers to the vast majority of visually
impaired users.
Google Reader has always had complete keyboard support. With the
accessibility enhancements we've added, all user actions now
produce the relevant spoken feedback via the user's adaptive
technology of choice. This feedback is generated using
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (
>WAI-ARIA), an evolving standard for enhancing
the accessibility of Web-2.0 applications. WAI-ARIA is supported at
present by Firefox — with future support forthcoming in other
browsers. This is one of the primary advantages of building on open
standards.
We originally prototyped these features in Google Reader using the
AxsJAX
framework. After extensive testing of these enhancements, we've
now integrated these into the mainstream product. See the
related post on the Google Reader Blog for additional technical
details.
Looking forward to a better informed future for all!
Posted by T.V. Raman, Research
Scientist
From time to time, our own
shares his tips on how to use Google from his perspective as a
technologist who cannot see — tips that sighted people, among
others, may also find useful.
Earlier this year, I blogged about the potential presented by
href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/web-apis-web-mashups-and-accessibility.html" href="http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/11/introducing-axsjax-access-enabling-ajax.html"
>accessibility mashups
delivering web interfaces that are optimized to a user's
special needs. More recently, my office-mate Charles Chen and I
blogged about our work on
>AxsJAX
for injecting accessibility enhancements into web
applications.
As we head into the holiday season, we decided it was time to have
some fun and generate a few laughs based on what we've worked
on during the year. As chance would have it,
Munroe, the creator of the
>XKCD comic strip, visited our Mountain View
campus to give an
com="" v="zJOS0sV2a24" >extremely entertaining talk. He even
made a reference to blind hacker geeks! So the temptation
was too hard to resist. We had to speech-enable his comic
strip.
The XKCD comics are highly visual, with a short comment from the
author accompanying many of the episodes. Having a detailed written
description that is visible to everyone would spoil the comic for
the average user; part of the fun is to understand the jokes purely
from the sketches. At the same time, notice that indexing and
searching online comics runs into the same challenge that blind
users face: to be able to locate past episodes, one needs access to
textual transcripts that capture the essence of each sketch. To
help with the latter, fans of online comics like XKCD have created
a
devoted to indexing comic strips, replete with full text
transcriptions. This is an example of a social Web applications
where fans can transcribe their favorite comics including
XKCD.
In the Web 1.0 world, I would have to pull up an XKCD episode, then
go to the site containing the transcripts, and finally find the
associated transcript in order to make sense of the comic. But this
is exactly where Web 2.0 mashups excel; mashups are all about
bringing data from multiple Web sources into a single integrated
view. Once we realized this, we were able to AxsJAX the XKCD site
with a small amount of code. Now, I can browse to the XKCD comic
site, and listen to each episode — with the underlying
AxsJAX-based mashup taking care of the minutiae of retrieving the
relevant transcript and integrating it into the comic strip.
This approach leverages all that is powerful about web-based
applications:
Distributed accessibility — the XKCD author does not need to
create the transcripts.
Transcripts can be integrated from across the web.
The accessibility enhancements do not spoil the fun for XKCD
readers in general.
And with Open Source self-voicing plugins like
href="http://firevox.clcworld.net/" >Fire Vox
every XKCD user can listen to the strip when desired.
Posted by Kathy Walrath, Google Desktop
team
This is the time of year when People Who Love to Decorate — you
know who you are — can go all out. And while you're festooning
your home and office, don't forget your computer desktop!
The Inside Google Desktop Blog has a guide to the
href="http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/2007/12/desktop-gadgets-for-holiday-season.html"
id="g-_m" >latest holiday gadgets
and tips on how you might use it. You can decorate a Christmas
tree, listen to music, exchange ornaments with a friend, count down
to the New Year, and more. They look right at home on your desktop,
or you can put them in the Google Desktop sidebar or your iGoogle
home page.
href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Ap14FtNN91w/R2qyY4LM1eI/AAAAAAAAAhM/mY3ny63SXyg/s1600-h/Desktop_tree.gif" >
alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146121664690181602"
border="0" />
Take the Christmas Tree gadget, for instance. When you start it up,
it's a simple tree with gently falling snow. With a few clicks
you can add ornaments wherever you like. If you find the animated
precipitation distracting, you can hide the snowflakes.
We hope you enjoy these gadgets. And happy holidays from the Google
Desktop Team
Tags: , desktop, google, Kathy, Posted, teamThis, time, Walrath
Posted by TJ Riley, Data Center
Technician
From time to time we highlight
the non-work interests and pastimes of individual Googlers. -
Ed.
I have been working with chainmail, and metal working in general,
for nearly 5 years now. I picked it up when I started college. My
first major in college was history, and I was going to focus on the
Middle Ages because of my fascination with the medieval period.
After I changed majors to Computer Science, my hobby remained
medievalism.
I have apprenticed under a blacksmith and learned some general
metal working techniques. But I could not build my own forge then,
so I turned to chainmail, which is a "cold" metal craft.
Now I can take a bag of rings with me anywhere I go, and any time I
have free time, I can work on whatever my current project is.
The crafting of chainmail is a relatively inexpensive hobby — for
the cost of a single videogame I can have enough chainmail supplies
to last me months. The best part is that is requires very little
thought most of the time, so you can multitask; watch TV, or
movies, or even browse the web while working on chainmail.
A while back I was wanting to try my hand a chainmail inlay, but I
did not have a design in mind. Most people make a chainmail shirt
that has some dragon, or rampant lion design on it. I wanted to
make something more unique. After a few weeks of thinking about
this, I realized that I could use the Google logo.
I started construction in late April 2007, my plan was to only work
on it while on my lunch break, or other downtimes. But I soon
realized it would take me years at that pace. And the opening of
our new office area was going to happen later in the summer. So I
began to work on it whenever I was not actually doing my job. I
spent around 4 to 5 hours a day every weekday weaving the
banner.
Four months later, I had a completed banner, which now hangs in our
office.
href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Ap14FtNN91w/R3WDVYLM1fI/AAAAAAAAAh8/a97t0z-By4o/s1600-h/Chainmail_wall.JPG" >
alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149166152257951218"
border="0" />
For the numbers-minded, here are some details:
The entire project is exactly 25,829 rings.
Dimensions: 67 units by 44 units (c. 66" x 27")
Rings: 1/4" 16-gauge aluminum; the silver is bright
aluminum and the inlay uses colored anodized aluminum.
The entire thing is the traditional 4 in 1 pattern turned 90
degrees.
Tags: , Center, data, Posted, Riley, TechnicianFrom, time, TJ
Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog
team
It's that time again, the end of a year - time to tote up
Google's blogging activity for the last 365 days. First, a few
bits of data about this particular blog:
Number of posts this year: 300
New product announcements: 15 (not counting our
href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/April 1"
id="arw6" >April 1 release
News about upgrades and additions to products: 87
Announcing products in more languages and countries: 30
Acquisitions: 12
Unique visitors: 6,738,830 (for 8,655,830 visits)
Languages: 511 (preferred language configured on
computers)
Top non-Google referrers: Yahoo, Digg, Slashdot, Fark
Beyond these basics, this year saw many more posts on privacy (9), href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/environment" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search/label/healthcare" href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/australias-election-map-redrawn.html"
id="q2e_" >accessibility (10), and
id="w10l" >energy and the environment
deal about Google's
id="r7nx" >people and culture, our various offices around the
world, and the pastimes and passions of Googlers (26, including 2
id="v-ic" >recipes). We talked about
id="ecq0" >healthcare issues
were competitions including Google Code Jam and events for
developers, educators and others (29). Through YouTube, there has
been much
id="eutf" >political activity (7) in the U.S. as well as in
id="olp8" >Australia
The posts that elicited the most reaction in terms of views and
linkbacks include:
- the much-discussed
id="pii." >"Gphone" news
- our thinking about the upcoming
id="q8w:" >FCC spectrum auction
- what the
id="tpxx" >OpenSocial APIs could mean
- how a
id="dj35" >black screen might not save energy
- announcing the
id="m0x8" >Knol test project
- building
id="c6w-" >your own Google homepage
Of course, there's more than business to write about. We href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/strawberries-are-red-stems-are-green.html"
celebrated
id="yir4" >National Gorilla Suit Day,
id="m.xv" >deconstructed the Valentine's Day doodle
then
id="clv." >a snake went missing.
As for the Google family of blogs, there's been lots of growth href="http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=ktewBXNbyTw" id="ftjw" >June href="http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=rQpNsTzbgqM"
this year: 42 new ones launched, for a total to 83
active company blogs. Increasingly, Googlers want to quickly and
regularly convey product news and updates to various constituents,
and blogs are a great way to do that. Among the most popular of
this newest crop are the
(nearly 1.5 million unique visitors), the Orkut blogs (in
id="ecs7" >English - 3.5 million uniques; and
id="dm6w" >Portuguese - 8.8 million), and
id="q5yh" >Google Lat Long, with 824,000 unique visitors, which
covers everything geographical. In addition, readers can now turn
to new product blogs including those for
Finance,
News, and
Reflecting keen interest in activity outside the U.S., the YouTube
blog had the greatest number of comments for its
post
countries, followed by the August post
id="wbkt" >announcing InVideo ads
On the ads side: there are now 6 more non-English blogs for AdSense href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/"
publishers (
id="o_ss" >Turkish,
id="a8.y" >Korean,
id="s1wm" >Chinese). The AdWords team opened blogs for
id="bost" >Brasil and the
Japan now has
Analytics blog, and there are now
id="ya-8" >German and
id="v6nl" >Chinese versions of the popular
id="xksc" >Webmaster Central
is the one for
nearly half a million unique visitors, followed by closely
id="n7.u" >Inside AdSense and then
AdWords.)
To keep current and share their work, developers got a raft of new
blogs, too, including those focused on APIs for
id="x3qt" >Checkout,
id="eo80" >Mashup, and
Needless to say, there are now also blogs for
id="q9s:" >Android and
id="bwub" >OpenSocial.
Two new country blogs, for the href="http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/" id="utt." >online
and
id="k.4." >Australia, went public, to talk about all things
Google in their regions. Yet more readers congregated around the
new
Policy and
id="zawg" >Google.org blogs, as well as one dedicated to
security
Despite all this activity, and the fact that a growing number of href="http://www.socialtext.net/bizblogs/index.cgi"
companies also host corporate blogs, the
id="zdsn" >Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki
collaborative project begun by Wired Magazine and SocialText)
indicates that even today, just 46 of the Fortune 500 companies
(about 9%), have active public blogs produced by company employees
that focus on the company and its products. Let's hope in 2008
that number goes up. We think such blogs can serve users,
journalists, critics, investors, and fans more effectively and
directly than more traditional approaches. Apparently, so do
41,395,926 people around the world - the number of visitors to all
of our blogs this year.
Posted by T.V. Raman, Research
Scientist
From time to time, our own
Raman shares his tips on how to use Google from his
perspective as a technologist who cannot see — tips that sighted
people, among others, may also find useful. - Ed.
A little over a year ago, I blogged about
id="r7wx" >our simple textual
directions as an alternative to the popular graphical Google
Maps interface. Those directions help me orient myself and learn my
way around. But in the interest of safety — my own and others! –
I choose not to drive and rely heavily on public
transportation.
Now that Maps has textual directions in place, it's easy to
build on top of that interface to introduce new innovations that
become immediately useful to someone like me.
great example of this — it helps me locate public transportation
options and does so in the text format that I need. In addition, it
offers several nice features to help me plan my trip:
I can specify the desired departure or arrival time.
It will show more than one trip choice, allowing some
flexibility with respect to when I'd like to start.
It estimates the amount of walking required to get to a transit
stop/station.
It identifies the length of waiting at each transit point.
It estimates the comparable cost of transportation options,
where available.
But these aren't the only benefits. Behind the scenes is the
>Google Transit Feed Specification (GTFS), an
open data format used by public transit agencies to upload their
data.
id="w5r9" >Several agencies are already using these public
feeds. Though GTFS is never seen by commuters directly, it opens up
a wealth of possibilities with respect to accessibility and
alternative access, such as building custom user interfaces and
specialized route guidance applications that are optimized for
people with special needs.
Though we added this alternative view to enhance the
accessibility of Google Maps for blind and low-vision users, we
hope that everyone finds it a useful addition to your commute
arsenal. So next time you use the Maps graphical interface, give
its cousin, the simple textual directions, a try — there might be
times when you find yourself using it even if you can see.
And here's to ever more open data feeds from the various
public transport agencies!
By TomHTML
New York, Bostonian, san Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, Atlanta and more city… the data of real time traffic that Google Maps shows city of about 60 United States now. This function will appeared on the Google Maps of mobile edition last year in July, but had in the version of a lot of languages of standard edition now.
Guest of Google government gain explained the meaning that those color place represent, nevertheless guest of rich of Google Operating System looks more accurate:
Green: Be more than 50 miles / hour yellow: 25-50 mile / the hour is gules: Be less than 25 miles / hour gray: Do not have available data
The area that visits to have traffic news on Google Maps when you when, can show light of a traffic. And still have new ” Traffic ” pushbutton.
Google is not the first service business that adds real time liaison man on his map; Yahoo! Offer this one function to had had period of time with Microsoft.
Join discuss
Tags: , adds, google, information, Maps, real, time, traffic
By TomHTML
New York, Bostonian, san Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, Atlanta and more city… the data of real time traffic that Google Maps shows city of about 60 United States now. This function will appeared on the Google Maps of mobile edition last year in July, but had in the version of a lot of languages of standard edition now.
Guest of Google government gain explained the meaning that those color place represent, nevertheless guest of rich of Google Operating System looks more accurate:
Green: Be more than 50 miles / hour yellow: 25-50 mile / the hour is gules: Be less than 25 miles / hour gray: Do not have available data
The area that visits to have traffic news on Google Maps when you when, can show light of a traffic. And still have new ” Traffic ” pushbutton.
Google is not the first service business that adds real time liaison man on his map; Yahoo! Offer this one function to had had period of time with Microsoft.
Join discuss
Tags: , adds, google, information, Maps, real, time, traffic
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Mobile network address: Http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help-basics-zhs/topics
Tags: , announcement, General, mobile, online, real, support, time