RE: looking for an accessible user friendly free search tool:

> David Poehlman

> I need a free search tool which is 508 compliant, accessible 
> and user  
> friendly.  We are not above building one but if there is one already  
> available or an example we can follow, it would be helpful to 
> have it  
> pointed out?

We're running HtDig with a slightly customised set of template files here
at Salford http://search.salford.ac.uk. It's not perfect, but does the job
and is reasonably easy to hack (although it won't do XHTML, unless you
fancy tweaking the engine's source and recompiling).

Patrick
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Patrick H. Lauke
Web Editor / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk
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Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force
http://webstandards.org/
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Received on Friday, 28 July 2006 14:15:45 UTC