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RE: Bobby changes hands again

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From: jebs webs
Date: Aug 7, 2002 4:41PM

I'm not sure how I feel about this move. It was my understanding that CAST,
a Massachusetts-based, non-profit organization developed Bobby and promoted
its use as part of its mission to make the web more accessible. Moving to a
FOR-profit company who will obviously have economics as their first mission
may create some interesting issues.

Thanks, Tim for bringing this to our attention. Now I will spend the next
few days changing links!

jeb
John E. Brandt
Augusta, ME 04330

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From: Tim Luoma [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 2:37 PM
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Subject: Bobby changes hands again



If you have provided Bobby links on your pages to check for accessibility,
they all have to be changed now.

bobby.cast.org now goes to bobby.worldfire.com and instead of just
forwarding requests, they drop them back to the main page.

The syntax hasn't changed, just the hostname:

http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/bobbyServlet?advanced=true&;URL=http://yourh
ostnamehere.tld/

BTW there are some Bobby/WCAG bookmarklets at
http://www.1122productions.com/brandon/archives/000824.html

which are very good... Hopefully the author will update them soon to
reflect the new hostname, but it is easy to edit them yourself if you have
them on your machine.

TjL

ps -- it seems to me that this has happened at least once before when the
old links were to something like 'validator.bobby.org' and then had to be
changed to 'bobby.cast.org'



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