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From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Sep 28, 2011 12:30PM

I think that accessibility improvements DO actually increase your ranking on search engines if you actually have compelling content worth reading in the first place. Google agrees.

To all extents, totally non-text information is NOT searchable at all, there's no less about it. No text = no indexing.

Paul J. Adam
Accessibility Evangelist
Deque Systems
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On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Hoffman, Allen wrote:

> The simple fact is that if people are equating accessibility
> improvements with increase ranking on search engines may not be true,
> and this seems to point that out. they are not the same requirement at
> the end of the day, so people should not expect higher rankings for
> accessible content, however, to some extent totally nontext information
> may be far less searchable than more text intensive data.
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