Comments on: The Awful State of Web Accessibility http://digitalstevenson.com/jeff/blog/archives/22 what happens in the inbetween Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:22:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: jonm http://digitalstevenson.com/jeff/blog/archives/22#comment-37 jonm Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:16:28 +0000 http://digitalstevenson.com/jeff/blog/archives/22#comment-37 Your article reminded me of "Bobby." It was an automated script search thing that would look at your code and determine if it was screen reader-friendly. Bobby has now become "Watchfire" and you can fin dit here: http://webxact.watchfire.com/ oh - and heres the background info on Bobby: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_%28software%29 Side Note: Do we really want computers knowing what exactly it is that they are accessing? I know I, for one, do not want my computer knowing that I accesss LOLCATs all the time. Not that I do that, I'm just saying that this is one step closer to robot domination! I'm aghast that you would support our future slavery like this. Your article reminded me of “Bobby.” It was an automated script search thing that would look at your code and determine if it was screen reader-friendly. Bobby has now become “Watchfire” and you can fin dit here: http://webxact.watchfire.com/

oh - and heres the background info on Bobby: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_%28software%29

Side Note: Do we really want computers knowing what exactly it is that they are accessing? I know I, for one, do not want my computer knowing that I accesss LOLCATs all the time. Not that I do that, I’m just saying that this is one step closer to robot domination! I’m aghast that you would support our future slavery like this.

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