Weird: Clone of DU's Front Page Found on a British Government National Health Service (NHS) Website

[Turborama]

I just stumbled across this when I put a thread title into Google and can't work out how or why they have it there: http://www.geneticseducation.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/parser.pl?bset=0005&bpth=/democraticunderground.com

(I'm not sure if "clone" is the right word but it seems to fit)

Here's their homepage: http://www.geneticseducation.nhs.uk/

Anyone got any ideas about what this is?

ETA: I've taken a screenshot and will add it if anyone can't access the link.

[greyl]

1. Nothing sinister.

You can change the address at the end of the link and the same function is performed:
http://www.geneticseducation.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/parser.pl?bset=0005&bpth=/lagom.nl/lcd-test/

[Turborama]

3. Thanks, I still don't get why it's there in the 1st place

Could the link to DU's homepage be saved as a favorite in their intranet, or something?

Question and thanks go out to you and gcomeau.

[Dead_Parrot]

4. It's to make webpages easier for blind/partially sighted people.

The system is called "Betsie" (BBC Education Text to Speech Internet Enhancer), and it strips everything but the text out of a webpage so it can be fed through a text-to-speech program without it tripping over banner ads and the like. It can also override the colours & fonts to make it easier to read.

If you scroll right to the bottom, you'll see "Betsie settings" that you can tweak: See http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/betsie/ for general info.

As greyl says, you can change the target website to anything you like.

[gcomeau]

2. I'll give you a hint...

http://www.geneticseducation.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/parser.pl?bset=0005&bpth=/cnn.com

http://www.geneticseducation.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/parser.pl?bset=0005&bpth=/yahoo.com

http://www.geneticseducation.nhs.uk/cgi-bin/parser.pl?bset=0005&bpth=/digg.com

Or... well, pick your website.