Dear Google and AXSLIB-L List members:

Thank you, Google, for concerning yourselves with people's universal need 
for accessibility.

First things first:  Why is the search engine called it bright big letters 
"for the visually impaired"?

1. The terminology is discriminatory. In U.S. English, "impaired"  has a 
literal meaning of being intoxicated on alcohol or drugs. So the term is 
offensive and needs to be deleted.

2. In any case, access needs for utilizing the Internet include many more 
concerns than just vision issues.

3. Accessible is Accessible is Accessible.  ACCESSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.
Everyone is aging. Also due to accidents, illness, war/terrorism, lifestyle 
choices, and natural disasters (i.e. Katrina), everyone sooner or later has 
access issues.

4. What to call it? "Google's Accessible Search Engine" [PERIOD].

5, Because Accessibility is about everyone,  Google's Accessible Search 
Engine"  needs to be Google's STANDARD search engine.

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Ellen Perlow, Ph.D.
Class member (aren't we all?)
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P.S. Dear Google:  Your e-mail address for this feedback - labs + 
[log in to unmask]  - could be made more accessible by omitting the plus 
sign and spacing, making your e-mail address one word: 
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>From: "Schmetzke, Axel" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: EASI's Library Accessibility Discussion List              
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>Subject: Google's new Accessible Search
>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:45:59 -0500
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>Google just rolled out a new experimental version of an accessible search 
>interface: http://labs.google.com/accessible/.
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>Your feedback to Google may be important.
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>Axel Schmetzke
>Library
>University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
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Check out EASI New Synchronous Clinics:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
EASI Home Page http://www.rit.edu/~easi
Online courses  and Clinics http://easi.cc/workshop.htm
Check the EASI Library Web http://www.rit.edu/~easi/lib.htm

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