Google's mission is to make information universally accessible and useful for all people. This involves considerations for accessibility (a11y), internationalization (i18n), and localization (l10n). While many products focus on users in English-speaking countries like North America, there are large populations worldwide with disabilities or who speak other languages. Effective technology considers diverse needs through features like screen readers, braille displays, and language translation.

1. Me
Accessibility for Android Hangouts

2. Build Universally
a11y, i18n and l10n ???

3. Google’s mission
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it
universally accessible and useful.
● a11y: Accessibility
● i18n: Internationalization
● l10n: Localization
● And ...

4. Product for ME
● English (US)
● US Citizen
● No Disability, Nothing Impaired
● USD Currency
● English System
● ...

5. Product not for ...
● Vision impaired
● Hearing impaired
● Motor impaired
● Non English native speaker
● Minority, under age, infancy
● Non US resident
● Limited connectivity

6. Numbers
● North America: 10.2%
● English speaker (Internet users): 28.6%
● Blind people: 180 million people
● Not using the internet: 61%

7. Can I haz your phone, plz?

8. Technology
Screen TalkBack, Braille Display
Touch interface TalkBack, Braille, Keyboard, Voice Input
Language Translators, soft keyboard
Speakers Caption
Connectivity Loon , Drones
? ?

9. Accessibility
● Content Description on Image
● Abbreviates
● 12:34 ?
● Explorerable
● <img src="smiley.gif" alt="Smiley face"
height="42" width="42">

10. Demo
Clock

11. I18n & L10n
● What is the difference?

12. Exercise
{$name} + " sent " + {$number} +
"dollars to his friend at " + {$month} +
"/" + {$day} + "/" + {$year} + "."

13. What is your name?

15. Time
● 1/2/12 ?
● 12:34 ?
● Calendars
● Daylight Savings?
● UTC!
● Interesting Time Zones...

16. Characters

17. Unicode
● Oh my Planes
● Formats: UTF-8, UTF-16 (BE/LE), UTF-32 (BE/LE)
● Fonts
○ 뷁
○ REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER
EXTENDED
○ Egyptian Hieroglyphs
● Sort? Search?

18. Right to Left

19. Does Your Code Pass The Turkey Test?
● Parsing DateTime "07/04/2008"
● Number format "4.5"
● Case sensitivity - “Turkish I”
● Regular expression "d{5}”

20. What else?
● Phone number format
● Address format
● Local laws, ethic
● Abbreviation
● Braille, joystick
● …