Google made the announcement today five improvements related to accessibility which will soon debut in their apps and services, which is undoubtedly great news, as any progress in this regard translates into removing barriers. More precisely, the type of barriers that are particularly cruel because they go completely unnoticed by all the people not affected, which means that in many cases no action is taken to end them.

Fortunately to date there is worldwide awareness of this problem, which is pushing in the right direction, that is, actively working to identify accessibility issues that affect certain groups, and once identified, work to address said issues as soon as possible. Sometimes major changes are necessary, other times much simpler actions like changing the font, color scheme, or offering larger controls are sufficient. But in all cases these changes make a big difference.

From the list of accessibility innovations Google announced today, I think there is one in particular that stands out (without detracting from the rest, of course) because in addition to being a step forward in this regard, it has a second positive consequence for all Google Chrome users. I wonder if the search engine already thought about this when they started working on it, or realized its “extra” usefulness while it was already in development, but whatever it is, it’s more than welcome.

I’m talking, as I already indicated in the title of this news, that Google Chrome will be able to detect errors in web addresses and in these cases will propose the appropriate corrections. However, the user can continue to use the URL as entered, as there is obviously a risk of “false alarms”, but it seems quite likely that in most cases the fixes will be successful. According to Google, the feature is already available in Chrome for desktop and will roll out to mobile devices in the coming months.

As I said, in addition to the significant improvement in terms of accessibility, it also means a breakthrough in security. Because? Surely you have on some occasion typed the wrong URL and when accessing it, you found yourself on a website that replaced the legitimate one, offering products and services of questionable reliability and/or legality, etc. Now we can save ourselves with this feature before this problem and the risk it entails.