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June 14, 2003

Using search engines to enforce accessible markup

asks the Lazyweb,

Why not put a few modules of code in Google (Or name your favorite engine.) that parse the spidered pages and checks them for DTD and CSS validity?

Original article: Using search engines to enforce accessible markup


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This has occured to me before, but having a search engine for blind people that only includes accessible websites is a nice thought (I may be extending your idea?).

Posted by: Michael Fagan on June 20, 2003 02:19 AM

Yes, that’s more or less what I am thinking about. But I wouldn’t exclude all the non-accessible, non-compliant sites. I’d just mark them on the results page with a little link saying, “this site doesn’t validate,” or “this site fails Bobby.” I suppose the user of the search engine could set bits to exclude all records that fail from the results but the default would be to include them.

Posted by: Mr. Farlops on June 21, 2003 07:04 AM



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