h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

will the next release of h2g2 be "Betsie" compatible? Betsie is the filter program used by the BBC to create an automatic text-only version of its website so that people with text readers and those who are visually impaired and need a clearer format can use the site. If not, why not? Should I start a campaign?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/betsie/index.html

Well if it's not you should definitely start a campaign - everybody should be able to access h2g2. Sign me up!

Sign me up!

Although It seems to work fine with speech

Do you mean this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/education/betsie/parser.pl/www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F19585?thread=157160

Ah. I'll take that as a 'yes', then.

Interesting: after following teh link: which i guess brings it up as "text only": it doesn't work at all with the speech softwear: and is entirely usless for any purpose: the "previous post", "next post" and "reply" buttons: which are graphical links, don't work, so I'll stick to using the graphical version, which seems to work fine with my speech softwear, strange ?

Mycroft, some pages work a bit but try, for example, clicking on the biggreensmilie name. It should take you to the biggreensmilie page but doesn't.

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Is it just the biggreensmilie page?

Well, most of the graphical links won't work with speech softwear (JAWS), when following that link, but work fine without it... so I gues the site isn't fully compliant, or it isn't as good as its cracked up to be...

I like plaing with the betsie parser sometimes... it is also better to print from, and accessibility is important.... Singn me in as well


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