TENBot - Automated RSS to TEN Conversion


The Electronic Newsletter (TEN) standard developed by Headstar is emerging as a common and useful format to make email based newsletters more accessible to visually impaired users.

TENBot is a hosted service that allows web site owners to provide their RSS feeds in the TEN format for use by blind and visually users. This will enable these users to rapidly obtain the key information from your web site without having to deal with complex navigation issues. Every feed which is TENBot enabled will be made available on our feed directory, allowing users easy access to a wide variety of information.

TENBot is currently in public Beta and comments are welcome. To try the service out we have TEN enabled the following popular RSS feeds (all links open in this window to help screen-readers).

As you see just put the RSS feed URL after url= to view any other feeds you know of. Check out Feedster for other feeds to try. (Note that this facility will only exist during the Beta testing phase).

We hope to launch the service formally in February 2006. If you'd like to make use of the service then please let us know.

Read the provisional TENBot information sheet, or download it in PDF format.


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