Accessibility

This website uses BETSIE.

What Is Betsie?

Betsie stands for BBC Education Text to Speech Internet Enhancer, and is a facility which is intended to alleviate some of the problems experienced by people using text to speech systems for web browsing. For an explanation of that in plain English, see the ' About Betsie' page.

How Betsie Works

The way that Betsie works is as follows. Normally, when you want to look at a web page, you tell your browser what page you want to look at, and your browser goes and gets that page from the right machine on the Internet. When you want to look at a web page with Betsie, you tell your browser to ask Betsie for the right page. Betsie then gets the page, but before sending it on to you, Betsie makes various changes in the HTML code of the page - removing all the images and the unnecessary formatting, so that what you get sent is the text content of the page, unmolested and at the top, with all the links on the BBC Navigation Bar moved to the bottom, so they aren't the first thing you have to deal with every time.

Every link on the Betsie version of a page is to the Betsie version of that page, so once you start looking at this site with Betsie, you can just keep going.