# Bobby bought by Watchfire

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/08/21/bobby-bought-watchfire/
- Published: 2002-08-21T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The popular Web accessibility tool has been purchased from not-for-profit educational
organisation CAST by Watchfire, the Web site management company.
Web site management
company Watchfire Corporation has acquired Bobby„¢, CAST’s leading Web site accessibility
technology. Bobby has been available at no charge for the past six years: every 
day it is used by Web site owners to test an average of 4,500 URLs for accessibility
issues.

Watchfire is already offering a paid-for version of the software, but adds that 
it will continue to offer the free online Bobby service which will allow single 
pages to be tested for accessibility problems.

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