Re: [uk-netmarketing] RE: Blind Readers

[Cait Hurley]

For anyone who wants to take a view, there's a useful *free* product in 

action - try searching for "Betsie" on BBC online, and you'll find that the 

BBC uses a perl parcer that they have - gawd bless them - free sourced so 

anyone who wants to bolt it on can do so.


What it does is basically make a site in to an HTML 1.01 with no images 

site - all text. It can handle frames and forms and it's perfect for not 

only blind users but it has implications for other media. It loads like a 

bullet - as you'd expect.


And it all came from one bloke called Wayne. Everyone should use it but 

hardly anyone does. It's free! It'll take you a day to tweak and use! Voila 

- a text only version of the site!


Am I making this clear enough?  It's free and it takes next to no dev time 

out of precious budgets!


C.


At 09:34 29/01/2001 +0000, you wrote:

>Silas

>

>It just happens that we have had to research just this sort of thing for a

>client of ours recently. An excellent resource is the WAI web accessibility

>initiative. You can get more info from http://www.w3.org/WAI/ links to lots

>of readers and testing sites etc.

>

>Someone earlier mentioned the Disability Act ,is there any other pending

>legislation that may make access a requirement for sites? We had heard the

>AOL got sued in the states for not ALT tagging images, is this true or not?

>

>And to qoute Tim Berners-Lee "The power of the Web is in its universality.

>Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."

>

>Teddie

>

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