Now that’s neat: view your site optimised for disability access
Have a look at this page generated by WiderWeb.
It’s like this one… only optimised to meet accessibility guidelines. Done automagically: strips out Javascript, mostly ignores CSS, and so on. A British invention (yay!) that deserves a wider audience.
How to do it: start with “http://demo.widerweb.net/” and add the part of the target website after “http://”. Enjoy. Read more at http://www.widerweb.net/widerweb.htm.
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
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October 18th, 2004 at 5:53 pm
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October 18th, 2004 at 10:17 pm
Charles,
There is also Lynx Viewer - which lets you view your pages through a simulation of the Lynx text browser. I find it quite useful, as I don’t think that there is a version of Lynx that runs under OS X.
October 19th, 2004 at 9:52 am
it is to this gizmos credit that it makes direct.gov so easily navigable. Excellent.
October 19th, 2004 at 10:32 am
Argh #1: I don’t know of any accessibility guidelines that require CSS to be mostly ignored. Have a look at http://www.webstandards.org/. That’s pretty good on the accessibility, but doesn’t look like it was coded in 1993.
Reigning in my web designer knee-jerk: the tool above looks like it could be a useful way to circumvent the bad design of some inaccessible sites. But I guess it doesn’t re-arrange the HTML to be semantic, so users on screen readers may still find them difficult.
Argh #2: Of course Lynx runs on OS X! OS X is just Unix, after all.
Ah. Then again, you might need 10.2 and the 10.2 Developer Tools (which are a free download, but still). Anyhoo…
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/lynx.html
October 24th, 2004 at 12:30 pm
There is also Links which installs a text browser under Mac OS X, without the need to have the Developer Tools installed. It also seems to have a few more features that Lynx does.