Betsie's days are no doubt numbered - modern coding techniques allow
much greater accessibility to be built into webpages, allowing
accessibility without having to resort to parsers like Betsie. You can
do a huge amount with a sensible HTML structure and CSS
layout/presenation techniques.
At 14:04 + 9/11/05, Andrew Bowden wrote:
Betsie is a bull in a sledgehammer/nut approach to accessibility from a
time when that was the only way to crack the nut. Now, someone has
invented the nutcracker.
Of course not everyone yet has a nutcracker so we still need the
sledgehammer, but
Thanks for the screenshots James.
So unless they just ripped the graphics from WMP (possible but
unlikely) it's using that as an embedded client.
It could be worth trying some of the standard WM player keyboard
shortcuts, eg F9/F10 for volume, ALT+ENTER for full screen, and see
if it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/
Why is there no text only link on this page? There is on most pages
on bbc.co.uk...
Feel free to use this!
http://www.recursion.co.uk/cgi-bin/betsie.cgi/www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/
No charge!
Gordo
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On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, James wrote:
Here's a few screenies: http://www.webcoding.co.uk/imp/
Note that you can actually play the DRM'd files in Media Player itself, it
doesnt have to go through the iMP player design. All the video's can be
fast forwarded etc without issue.
With all this DRMed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/
Why is there no text only link on this page? There is on most pages
on bbc.co.uk...
Probably because it has accessibility features built into the page
itself, which allow the presentation in a similar way to what Betsie
provides, and in some aspects,
: accessibility, is the smell really that
bad?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/
Why is there no text only link on this page? There is on most pages
on bbc.co.uk...
Feel free to use this!
http://www.recursion.co.uk/cgi-bin/betsie.cgi/www.bbc.co.uk/accessibilit
y/
No charge!
Gordo
--
Think
I don't know about exactly how they've taken accessibility into account
on iMP - maybe take the question to the message board posted here
earlier? I'll ask Priya on your behalf if I see her around, though. I
can't imagine for a second it's been ignored, but I suppose there's a
possibility that
Since it's a testing beta more aimed at testing the technology and the
idea I'm sure the accessibility elements will come in when it's out.
The boards suggest a limited budget to examine this idea and that's why
we havent seen a linux or mac client and I suspect the same can be
applied to a
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At 12:01 07/11/2005, you wrote:
Since it's a testing beta more aimed at testing the technology and
the idea I'm sure the accessibility elements will come in when it's out.
The boards suggest a limited budget to examine this idea and that's
why we havent seen a linux or mac client and I suspect
Here's a few screenies: http://www.webcoding.co.uk/imp/
Note that you can actually play the DRM'd files in Media Player itself,
it doesnt have to go through the iMP player design. All the video's
can be fast forwarded etc without issue.
Jim.
Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote:
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