Robotize

See your web page through a robot's eyes.

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This app is now retired for various reasons.

There is little love for accessibility standards now, especially since Google is able to render js to some extent (though it's a mistake to think that all search engines do). The functionality lives on within Scrutiny.

See your web page as a search engine robot sees it:
- Tests all of the page's links and images
- See headings listed separately (as outline view) and in context
- See meta tags listed
Helps you to perform a number of checks for the WCAG Accessibility Guidelines:
- See your images listed with alternative text (Guideline 1.1.1)
- Check your content's information and structure 'linearised' (Guideline 1.3)
- See your links listed by link text and url (Guideline 2.4.4 & 2.4.9)
- See headings listed separately and in context (Guideline 2.4.10)
Operates as a text-only browser or 'reader':
- See the page content clearly without the distraction of other page elements
- pages load quickly because the page doesn't have to load images and other resources and doesn't have to render a layout
- Set your own choice of text font / size and heading font / size
- Navigate using the page's 'separated out' links (optionally appear in context)

Get a better understanding of how search engines as well as those using assistive technology see your site.

Category:Developer Tools / Utilities

System Requirements

Mac OS 10.6 or higher.

History

V1.3 January 2015 (no longer beta)

improves parsing - words separated by html tags with no whitespace are now always separated
Adds automatic update check
Adds some preset themes, View > Themes and in Preferences (fonts & colours have always been customisable in Preferences)

V1.2 November 2014 (still beta)

Better web browsing:

Adds Preference for 'show links' - includes 'clickable' links inline so Robotize is more usable as a text-only browser
Adds Preference for 'show image alt text'
If text (not a url) is entered in the address bar, a Google search is done using that text

V1.1 November 2014 (still beta)

Adds Preferences for background colour, text colour and headings colour
Adds indentation of heading levels to headings list, so looks more like an outline view
Scales size of headings in main view by level - H1 is the size set for headings in preferences, then progressively smaller down to h7

v1.0

First beta release