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Posted in Thoughts, conferences, standards on Nov 27th, 2008
According to CNET Asia, Google announced ActiveX support for Google Chrome in Korea yesterday. I was particularly disappointed to read this as it reinforces crappy standards support and locking people into using certain browsers and denying choice.
Of course I would say this being an Opera employee however with my Opera hat off I can honestly [...]
Posted in accessibility on May 12th, 2008
TV Raman and Charles Chen over at Google have just released their next installment in accessibility enabled Google applications: a zoom feature in Google Reader built using the AxsJax framework (AxsJax = Access-Enabling AJAX).
Using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) they have built in the ability to increase and decrease the text size of stories in your [...]
Posted in accessibility, internationalization on Apr 21st, 2008
I arrived at W4A in Beijing this morning and one of the first people I bumped into was Charles Chen over at Google. Charles is the guy behind FireVox, the screen reader extension for FireFox, and has been busy working on a solution to incorporate translation into Google instant messaging in a way that [...]
Posted in internationalization on Mar 6th, 2008
Google desktop recently moved out of beta and added Thai and Indonesian to it’s language bank bringing the total of translations up to 31. If you don’t already use Google Desktop it’s worth checking out as it allows you to carry out text searches of your emails, computer files, music, photos, chats, web pages viewed [...]
Posted in internationalization on Feb 27th, 2008
So what does happen if you’re an Arabic speaker and you naturally expect to be able to write a search query from right to left? You’re sort of stuck and have to work with writing from left to right. Not any more however if you’re a Google user. If you’re using a supported local interface [...]