BBC text-to-speech friendly site

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From: Doris Beers
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 00:00

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This is most likely old news to all the old hands out there, but I was
pleasantly surprised to run across this on the BBC news website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/betsie/

                    Betsie Home Page
Welcome to the Betsie home page. This page is your jump-off point to
the text-to-speech enhanced version of all BBC Online sites, from
Education to the World Service, from News to Eastenders, and more...

                            Betsie-enhanced BBC Sites

                            BBC Online Home Page

                            BBC Education Home Page

                            BBC News Online Home Page

                            BBC World Service Home Page

                            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 News

 The source code for Betsie is now available. Visit the Betsie
Technology page for full details.

Betsie has been officially approved by the RNIB, and received the RNIB
accessibility award for January 1999.




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