The ATI Google Apps Accessibility Evaluation Project tested the accessibility of Gmail Chat, Google Calendar, Google Sites and Google Docs using automated, manual and user testing with screen readers.
The report showed a number of accessibility issues are present in the Google Apps suite, and based on these results made the following recommendations:
Google, which bought YouTube in 2006, has been working to improve the service, but the article highlights the huge challenges it faces. To be accurate, the software must be able to recognise a million words, the different ways they can be pronounced, and their different sounds according to context (whether a person’s voice is raised or not, for example).
It must also distinguish between speech which needs to be captioned and background noise, and the audio quality of many videos posted on YouTube is very poor.
The statement, ‘Television channels required to provide access services in 2012’, has the following outcomes for 2012:
ZoomContacts uses Apple’s internal contacts database to store and manage contacts. This means that any existing contacts will be available using ZoomContacts, and you also manage and search your contacts using the custom interface that comes with this app.
