Yes, there's a problem with accessify ... but I'm aware of it. Short story: blog/news section got corrupted and appeared to be hacked. I could not easily fix it and was not sure what had been compromised, so I decided to pull the whole directory (its permissions had been changed by someone other than me, and that was not good!).

The good news - there's a redesign/rebuild of accessify around the corner. I've been finding it difficult to get time to finish it, but the problem with the blog has meant that I'll probably have to release it all without being 100% satisfied. But it's around the corner.

In the meantime, you could follow accessify on Twitter (which will continue after the redesign goes live).

And hopefully, this annoying message won't be here for too much longer.

Ian

Accessibility testing on a budget

Delorie Lynx Viewer

If you were to approach the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) for an audit of your web site, the first thing you should do is check how your site looks in Lynx - a text-only browser - because this is precisely what they will do.

Lynx does laughably little:

• it does not display images
• it does not run <script>ed content
• it cannot use image maps
• it cannot display tables, but will instead linearise them

It doesn't do much, does it? But for a blind user, none of the above matters. So, you need to be sure that your site works at this most basic level.

Lynx is not an easy program to install or use, however, so the most simple way to find out how your pages look is to visit Delorie's Lynx viewer. You simply type in the URL, press the button and hey presto - your page appears in text form.

Try the Delorie Lynx Viewer

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