Google is Biggest “Disabled” Internet User

Image credit: Google Bot by Tyler Jordan

When thinking about website accessibility, what comes to mind is, how many blind, hearing impaired or otherwise disabled people are really going to visit my site? According to World Health Organization (Global Data On Visual Imparement For 2002), there are over 161 million visually impaired people in the world. That makes about 2.4% of the world population. Seems like a small number compared to over 6.5 billion of world’s population, to worry about designing the website to accommodate this particular need, considering that more than half of that 2.4% is in the third world countries and most do not even have access to the Internet to come and visit my site even if they wanted to.

Google is Disabled

What we do need to know is that there actually is a really important reason to make sure that every website addresses the accessibility issue. It is not just to make it easier for the disabled but to get better results in the search engines.

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All The Twitter Apps You Ever Wanted

This morning I found a large stockpile of Twitter Applications, all in one place. I’ll be on my way to browse through all of them and see if I can use sme of them. While I do that, here is the link to that site…http://www.twapps.com…check it out, you’ll probably find something you’ll like there.

Aah, this one’s cool. I entered my Twitter username on TweetSnap.com and it generated this graphic below and HTML code so I can add it to my website.

Ok, going to go keep browsing…

Oh yeah, follow me on Twitter: Valiik

See you there.

Search Market Share 2008 Chart

Interesting to see how Google dominates the search industry and while it’s competition is headed towards doom, Google keeps inching it’s way to the top. I wonder what will happen within the next 5 years.

Looks to me like Microsoft will maybe (well, I think it should anyway) focus it’s resources on it’s software that is earning it a bad rep instead of trying to be everything to everyone and quit waisting it’s money on growing a search engine that I doubt will ever be anything to be proud of.

Yahoo, I don’t know, even if Microsoft does buy it out, it won’t help it. It’ll get rid of a competitor for Google but in terms fo helping Microsoft, I just don’t see it. If Yahoo does not sell off to Microsoft, it’s just going to slowly fade away, I think. I don’t remember when I last used Yahoo search engine…probably about 2 years ago. They just can’t compete with Google and I don’t know if anyone really can.

Social news sites are probably the next biggest/powerful search entity that can go head to head with Google and I can see how maybe some of those companies can buy out Live and Yahoo and do something with them.

What do you think?

Comments Fixed…

As I made these major changes here on WDI, one if the things that I missed was to update the reCapcha keys for the new domain. Thanks to Rendell for letting me know about that. It is now functional so please leave your comments for me about the new design. I am looking forward to it.

WebDesignIdeas.org – The Facelift…

Very exciting for me, I finally got the new WDI template done. It’s been in planning and construction for about 2 months now and finally it is here. I really like how it turned out and would love to hear some feedback from my readers. Please leave your comments below.

As you may have noticed I have also changed the main domain to WebDesignIdeas.org instead of the old wbDesignIdeas.com. I have my heart in this blog and want it to succeed and one thing that I didn’t like was the weird domain name that wasn’t really “main stream”, if you will. I tried many times to contact the owner of WebDesignIdeas.com but he won’t answer my calls or emails. I think .ORG is just fine with us…what do you think? :)

Looking forward to your feedback.

-Valiik.