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Whilst it may not be relevant to you, I think part of this is that Google are in a position to incentivise firms to better serve users with disabilities. If I
by turbonaut 6y ago
Whilst it may not be relevant to you, I think part of this is that Google are in a position to incentivise firms to better serve users with disabilities.
If I am penalised not for relevance but for accessibility then I fix the accessibility.
I am then both relevant and accessible and the world is a better place.
- dbetteridge 6y agoWhich is fine if the pages are receiving updates, but a lot of content exists on pages they are no longer updated and never will be again. We shouldn't lose that content which can still be very relevant just because they're not following the current trend of constant website updates.
- appleiigs 6y agoOld relevant content will still be there. However, content that is relevant and accessible will be higher.
- tesseract 6y agoFor better or worse (in my opinion, worse) recent iterations of the Google algorithm already severely penalize, or even drop, static pages that have not been recently updated. I suspect it's a big factor in making small academic and personal websites significantly harder to find than they were in the past.
- the_other 6y agoMany current website trends (overlays, popups, animated/video advertising, sticky video players) make content less accessible even for people with mainstream access requirements.