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The Web is full of information that should be accessible to everyone. Unfortunately, many websites are not designed according to the accessibility guidelines and are therefor not very user friendly. Many people that are blind have difficulty accessing the content on websites so this needs to change. Motivated by this, the idea of this article is convert the Web pages to a pure textual form and place it on a separate space where these users can easily access the information and navigate through. Fortunately, there is already a protocol called Gopher that provides just that, pure textual sites with an easy text menu navigation. In addition by using Gopher some other problems that exist on the Web regarding security, privacy and download speed are solved as well. In order to demonstrate how easy it is to convert sites to textual form a tool was developed that can convert any WordPress website to a Gopher site. The tool can easily be extended to other systems as well. |
