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Who Betsie Is For

Betsie is a server-side solution to the problem faced by a large number of websites - they absolutely must be accessible to everybody, but for whatever reason they are not, and there aren't the resources to redesign everything from scratch or to go through every page fixing them completely by hand.

Betsie can provide an on the fly text-only version of every page on your site which can be (more or less) guaranteed to be accessible, and can be modified to include features of code manipulation that are wholly specific to your site. An example of this is the code used in the BBC's online version of Betsie which handles the BBC navbar.

If you are a webmaster, server administrator, or are otherwise involved in the design and technical accessibility issues around your website, then Betsie is likely to be at least interesting, if not useful to you. This package contains a reasonably comprehensive set of instructions as to how to install and set up Betsie on your own server. It assumes you have a working knowledge of Perl and a good knowledge of HTML.

If you just want to use Betsie, then there is nothing to install and nothing to set up. All you need to do is to visit the Betsie home page and follow the links to the Betsified sites provided there.

Source

Source code for the current release of Betsie.

Current version: 1.5.12

License

License document for the current Betsie distribution.

(Executive summary - it's free if you want to use it but you can't sell it. :)

Developers Site and Download

Development of Betsie has now moved to Sourceforge, where you can get the latest cvs version, subscribe to the betsie-devel mailing list and more...

http://betsie.sourceforge.net/

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This page was last updated on 25th June, 2002.

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