I’ve been neglecting my blog recently. There was no shortage of news, but somehow I didn’t feel like writing. My mind is preoccupied with other things and where the hell is the cold and wet summer everyone promised?

Google announced accessible web search for the visually impaired. I see it as a great step in creating an accessible web search for everyone.

Najdi.si is testing a slovenian version of Google maps, which obviously can’t be more accurate than its source data, but works very well nevertheless.

But I’ve been most pleased to discover something else. I gave a talk recently and we spent quite some time discussing AJAX and Javascript accessibility issues. I wish I knew back then about this .

Not only is there a draft of a specification for making widgets accessible, we even got a test environment with Firefox 1.5. I’ve only had the time to scan through specification, so my view should be taken with a big pinch of salt, but my first impression is definitely positive. We’ll see how it develops after I had time to digest it and make a few tests.