(Apologies if you've heard this all before) I write several very popular applications for blind people to allow them to access BBC content easily: http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessiblebbc/index.htm http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessibleradio/index.htm http://www.webbie.org.uk/accessiblebbciplayer/index.htm
They all work by screen-scraping and using webbrowser automation to extract the simple information I need to be able to present blind people with easy-to-use lists of available content, for example: - All the radio programs available through Listen Again for a given channel. - All the TV programs available through iPlayer right now. - All the live radio stations currently available. I would LOVE, and have repeatedly requested to anyone kind enough to listen, some kind of OPML/RSS/RDF source for the content. Then I could stop my screen-scraping, which of course breaks when the BBC updates their website (hardly ever, thanks guys!) and spend my limited development time on a different open-source and free accessibility project for blind people. I can only assume that some politics are preventing this, since it doesn't seem a technically-challenging problem. Best wishes, Dr. Alasdair King WebbIE http://www.webbie.org.uk On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:50 AM, David Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/7/9 Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Or perhaps just one big >> http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/catalogue.xml >> with the whole structure in it? > > That'd work better :) > > -d > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe > backstage-developer [your email] as the message. > -- Alasdair King - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk developer discussion group. To unsubscribe, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe backstage-developer [your email] as the message.
