At Google we work to make our services more accessible to everyone, and have taken a number of steps over the years to improve our products and methodologies. From the way we produce events like I/O, to the products we build, to the tools we equip developers with, accessibility is fundamental to everything we do.

Mason’s Creamery started as a mobile ice cream business. But through a lot of hard work and the help of digital tools, Jesse and Helen turned a 60-year-old boarded up ice cream shop into a neighborhood hub. Find training and tools to help you grow your skills, career, or business at https://google.com/grow

Tour creator lets you create your own VR tour. Students and teachers love it. See how one school in Lancaster, PA is using Tour Creator to share why they love where they live with new friends across the world. It’s a new way to be pen pals and tour guides at the same time.

To get started with Tour Creator, visit g.co/tourcreator.

When a young music lover follows the call of whales, he finds his own path. Google’s docuseries ‘Search On’ tells the stories of people on a quest for better answers and the magic that happens at the intersection of tech and humanity. Watch the series: http://yt.be/SearchOn
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Daniel DeLeon never imagined he would use machine learning to study endangered whales. But a life-long passion for music and fascination with the science of sound led him to an internship at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, where he used TensorFlow, Google’s open-source machine learning tool, to make breakthroughs identifying endangered whale calls.

Director: Gandja Monteiro
Cinematographer: Carolina Costa
Editors: Garin Glassy, David Goldstein
Producers: Chris Lopez, Jon Campbell
Production company: Gloria Content
Google Brand Studio
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Go deeper into this episode of Search On and learn more about Daniel’s remarkable journey at http://g.co/soundwaves and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute at https://www.mbari.org/

Introducing the Lookout app, coming to the Play Store later this year.

Lookout is an Android app designed to help people who are blind or visually impaired gain more independence by giving real-time spoken cues about objects, text and people around them. Lookout can be used with minimal interaction, allowing users to stay engaged with their current activity.

Stay in touch for the latest updates by following @googleaccess on Twitter.

For a version of this video with audio descriptions, head over to https://youtu.be/Sj1AWKwWvyo

Introducing the Lookout app, coming to the Play Store later this year.

Lookout is an Android app designed to help people who are blind or visually impaired gain more independence by giving real-time spoken cues about objects, text and people around them. Lookout can be used with minimal interaction, allowing users to stay engaged with their current activity.

Stay in touch for the latest updates by following @googleaccess on Twitter.

The new Google News organizes what’s happening in the world to help you learn more about the stories that matter to you.

Ever since Morse opened developer Tania Finlayson’s world, she’s been working to make it accessible for everyone.

Interested in learning Morse code or using the keyboard Tania developed with the Gboard team? Visit https://g.co/morse

Federated Learning works through collaborative learning, using de-identified, aggregated information from many devices to improve machine learning models.