Cynthia Says... Create Accessible Web Sites

Posted by michael on Friday March 14, 2003 @08:32AM from the or-else dept.

Kynn writes "The folks at ICDRI, in partnership with the Internet society and HiSoftware, bring us Cynthia Says, a free service to help you evaluate your Web pages for accessibility. In other words, it's roughly equivalent to what Bobby used to be, before it went commercial. It features what seems to be a cartoon version of my friend Cynthia Waddell, which is a bit creepy, but in all honesty it's a much better symbol than the old cartoon cop used with Bobby. I always thought there was an implied menace, as if the smiling chap would happily bludgeon you with his truncheon if you created an inaccessible Web site." If only.

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Her own medicine by bertilow · 2003-03-14 13:35 · Score: 3, Interesting

So, I checked my home page with Cynthia, and I got some complaints. They were reasonable. But then I saved the report Cynthia produced, and had her check her own code.

Here it is:

http://www.bertilow.com/div/cynthias_medicine/

And here's her verdict:

Verified File Name:
http://www.bertilow.com/div/cynthias_medicine/
Emulated Browser: Cynthia 1.0
Date and Time: 3/14/2003 8:34:15 PM
Failed Automated Verification
Emulated Browser: Cynthia 1.0

She failed! The reason is the crappy markup with loads of deprecated stuff. What were they thinking?