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Steve Faulkner, from the Paciello Group, has been doing some Accessibility testing of the new Google browser, Chrome. While it is important to remember that the browser is still in beta, and it has a lot of great features, it is not looking good on the accessibility front at this point:

This release of Google Chrome does not appear to have been developed with the needs of users with disabilites taken into account, apart from limited keyboard shortcuts, basic support required for accessibility is absent.

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Date: 4 September 2008
Author: Russ Weakley
Category: Accessibility, News, Web, Web standards
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Comments so far

  1. Thiago says:
    September 4, 2008 at 7:51 am

    What about Opera’s keyboard navigation? I love it. You can really navigate throughot any page efficiently without using the mouse.

  2. Russ says:
    September 4, 2008 at 8:15 am

    @Thiago: agree – Opera have a huge range of powerful keyboard shortcuts.

  3. Saint Germain says:
    September 4, 2008 at 11:07 pm

    Google Chrome is very fast, but with firefox i can have a lot of extensions… so… i keep my Fierfox.