Dear all,

 

Please find below information about the Jodi Mattes Webaccessibility Awards 2005 for museums, libraries, archives and heritage sites. Nominations are now open and the deadline for nominations is Friday 11 March. I should be most grateful, if you could disseminate information about the Awards as widely as possible….

 

…. we would like to make sure the news of the Awards reach all who have worked hard and creatively at developing accessible websites.

 

 

Best wishes,

 

Marcus   

 

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Action and events coming up in 2005…

 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
The closing date for nominations Friday 11 March 2005.

Read more detail at: http://www.mla.gov.uk/news/snippets.asp

 

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 of the findings of the City University Business School audit will be launched this Spring at an event hosting the presentation of the Jodi Mattes Webaccessibility Awards 2005.

Find out more

Marcus Weisen, MLA’s Health and Disability Adviser and Professor Helen Petrie, Director of City University’s Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design will be speaking at the following conferences this Spring:

• April 16

Museums & The Web Conference (Vancouver, Canada)
www.archimuse.com/mw2005/

• April 21

Museums & The Web Conference (Leicester)
www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk/meetings.htm

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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

 

 

 

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2005!

 

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