Google Faculty Research Award Focuses on Accessibility

mz22 — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 14:40:08 +0000

July 2014 – Google Vice President, Vint Cerf, encourages academic faculty focus on accessibility when proposing research for Google’s Faculty Research Award. The award program encourages faculty members at academic institutions to pursue research in various areas of mutual interest. Regarding Internet policy, Google is accepting applications that address the following categories:

Accessibility
Access
Intellectual property in the digital area
Freedom of Expression
Internet Governance
Open Standards and Interoperability

The program reviews proposals twice a year, awarding winners with up $150,000 in funding for research. The next application deadline is October 15, 2014. For more information, visit http://research.google.com/university/relations/research_awards.html

GOOGLE APPS MADE MORE ACCESSIBLE

mz22 — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:28:12 +0000

September 19, 2012— Google claims to have worked to improve accessibility in Google Docs, Sites, Calendar and mobile apps over the past year. In Google Calendar, there were enhancements in focus handling, keyboard access and navigation. Optical Character Recognition technology was added to Google Drive, which allowed screen readers to read the text in scanned PDFs and images. Related to the Google Apps (Gmail for mobile and Google Drive on iOS and Android), improvements were made to explore-by-touch capabilities and keyboard/trackpad navigability.

Wireless RERC - Google

Google Faculty Research Award Focuses on Accessibility

GOOGLE APPS MADE MORE ACCESSIBLE