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Museums with Designated collections might be particularly interested in the call for nominations for the Jody Mattes Webaccessibility Awards 2005 - see note below. Nomination forms are available on the MLA website at: http://www.mla.gov.uk/action/learnacc/00access_03.asp#6 <http://www.mla.gov.uk/action/learnacc/00access_03.asp#6> . The closing date for nominations is Friday 11 March 2005.
7 January 2005
MLA News Ebulletin
Issue 125
This e-bulletin focuses on MLA's work to action and promote accessibility - including the successes of 2004 and the work and events coming up in 2005.
- Awards for Disability Portfolio and MLA Website
- RNIB Accreditation
- Jodi Mattes Webaccessibility Awards 2005 - call for nominations
- New, interactive Disability Experts database
- Web Accesibility Report on museum, library and archive websites
- Find out more at conferences this Spring
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2004 has been a successful year for MLA's work actioning and promoting accessibility.
* MLA's Disability Portfolio was awarded a 'Getting the Message Across' Award from the National Information Forum (NIF)
* The MLA website was short-listed for the National Library for the Blind Visionary Design Awards.
* The MLA website also received the prestigious RNIB See IT Right accreditation
Read details of all three awards at http://www.mla.gov.uk/news/snippets.asp <http://www.mla.gov.uk/news/snippets.asp>
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Action and events coming up in 2005...
1) Jodi Mattes Webaccessibility Awards 2005 - Call for Nominations
The Jodi Mattes Webaccessibility Awards were established in 2003, European Year of Disabled People, to celebrate the most accessible museum, gallery and heritage website. This year sees the awards opening to nominations from libraries and archives too.
The Awards will be for a museum, gallery, library, archive or heritage website which demonstrates active commitment to meeting web accessibility standards, involves users and develops practical and imaginative ways of making cultural and learning resources accessible to disabled people. The Awards are for websites developed in England. There will be two Awards:
* Award for a low budget website which best demonstrates what can be achieved through commitment by smaller organisations
* Award for excellence open to all organisations.
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) is co-ordinating the Award, in association with the Museums Computer Group and Leicester University Museum Studies Department. City University's Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design has been commissioned to undertake user testing of nominations.
Nomination forms are available on the MLA website at: http://www.mla.gov.uk/action/learnacc/00access_03.asp#6 <http://www.mla.gov.uk/action/learnacc/00access_03.asp#6>
The closing date for nominations Friday 11 March 2005.
Read more detail at: http://www.mla.gov.uk/news/snippets.asp <http://www.mla.gov.uk/news/snippets.asp>
2) Coming soon.. the new, interactive Disability Experts online database
The new, interactive Disability Experts is an online database of over 200 disability trainers, auditors and consultants with experience or an interest in working with museums, archives and libraries. The upgraded successor to the Disability Database, it will help museums, archives and libraries identify trainers, auditors and consultants who meet their specific needs.
Disability Experts will be live on the MLA website later this month.
3) MLA Web Accessibility Report to be launched this Spring
MLA commissioned an audit of the accessibility of 300 museum, library and archive websites. The report by City University Business School will be launched this Spring at an event hosting the presentation of the Jodi Mattes Webaccessibility Awards 2005.
4) Find out more
Marcus Weisen, MLA's Health and Disability Adviser, will be speaking at a number of conferences this Spring.
* April 16
Museums & The Web Conference (Vancouver, Canada)
www.archimuse.com/mw2005/ <file:///\\www.archimuse.com\mw2005\>
* April 20
Library & Information Show/MUREX (Birmingham)
www.lishow.co.uk/cgi-events/user_press.pl?press_id=2447&exhibition_id=71 <file:///\\www.lishow.co.uk\cgi-events\user_press.pl?press_id=2447&exhibition_id=71>
www.museum-expo.com/ <file:///\\www.museum-expo.com\>
* April 21
Museums & The Web Conference (Leicester)
www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk/meetings.htm <file:///\\www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk\meetings.htm>
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005!
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