This is from the Media Specialists list (LM_NET): 

For those librarians working with visually impaired or blind students (and

haven't heard yet), Google now has an "Accessible Search" component for

blind and visually impaired users.  Here's the link to try it:

http://labs.google.com/accessible/

It is a new product but their statement of what the search engine will do

includes:

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Accessible Search is an early Google Labs product designed to identify and

prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually

impaired users. Regular Google search helps you find a set of documents that

is most relevant to your tasks. Accessible Search goes one step further by

helping you find the most accessible pages in that result set.

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For the rest of the information about this new Google component, check out:

http://labs.google.com/accessible/faq.html

As a former teacher-librarian for the blind and visually impaired,

this appears to be a great options for Internet searching that definitely

needs to be shared with teachers who have visually impaired or blind

students in their classrooms!

Other Google Lab products can be found at:  http://labs.google.com/   There

are lots of unique things to share with your students and teachers if you

introduce Internet searching techniques!

Shonda Brisco, MLIS

Technology Librarian

Fort Worth Country Day School

Fort Worth, TX

http://www.fwcds.org

sbrisco@gmail.com