Information access is at the core of Google’s mission – to make the world’s information universally accessible and useful. That’s why in addition to crawling, indexing and ranking billions of websites, images, videos and other content, we also work to make that content available in all languages and in accessible formats.
We want to make information available to everyone, and that includes people with disabilities, such as blindness, visual impairment, color deficiency, deafness, hearing loss and limited dexterity. We’ve found that providing alternative access modes like keyboard shortcuts, captions, high-contrast views and text-to-speech technology helps everyone, not just people with disabilities. For example, keyboard shortcuts help power users get things done more quickly without using a mouse, speech-to-text technology enables people to skim and search audio content, and custom product themes give people more opportunities to personalize.
Our engineers have an enviable role in being able to work in a broad range of products including Google Search, Video access on YouTube, interactive AJAX web apps like Gmail and Google Docs, mobile platforms like Android and client applications like Google Chrome.
If you want to help us make these technologies truly universally accessible and useful, and you meet the general requirements for our software engineering positions, please send us an email at access-jobs@google.com.