Betsie Home Page

Betsie is the filter program used by the BBC to create an automatic text-only version of its website. This site contains full information about Betsie as well as pointers to accessible sites and resources across the web.

Betsie-enhanced BBC Sites

BBC Online Home Page

BBC Education Home Page

BBC News Online Home Page

BBC World Service Home Page

Recently Added Betsie-enhanced Sites

(the BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites)

For the full list, please see the links page.

British Antarctic Survey - researching the Antarctic.

DTI - The Department of Trade and Industry

INSIDE - Integrating Networked Simulations In Distributed Education

Portuguese Newspapers - Much of the Portuguese press has been made available, via Betsie, by the very excellent acessibilidade.net

University of Wales, Aberystwyth - pursuing excellence in the creation and dissemination of knowledge, in Aberystwyth.

The Mayor's Thames Festival

Are you using Betsie on your site? If so, send me mail and I'll add you to the list.

What Is Betsie?

Betsie stands for BBC Education Text to Speech Internet Enhancer, and is a simple Perl script which is intended to alleviate some of the problems experienced by people using text to speech systems for web browsing. For an explanation of that in plain English, see the 'About Betsie' page. For the complete technical details of Betsie, visit the 'Betsie Technology' page.

Betsie Site Contents

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

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