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From: Tim Luoma
Date: Wed, Aug 07 2002 11:43AM
Subject: Bobby changes hands again
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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://yourhostnamehere.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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From: jebs webs
Date: Wed, Aug 07 2002 4:41PM
Subject: RE: Bobby changes hands again
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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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