Dear all,
You may have browsed the MCG web recently and seen the call for
nominations for Jodi Mattes Webaccessibility Awards (more info below) on
the home page. The MGC, Leicester University Museums Studies Department
and MLA have partnered up for the 2005 Awards for museums, libraries,
archives and heritage venues, co-ordinated by MLA. It's is only a couple
of weeks until 11 March, the deadline for nominations.
The Award Ceremony will take place on 12 April at City University Cass
Business School in London, at an event which will also see the launch of
the report of the audit of 300 museum, library and archive websites MLA
commissioned from City University, which will become available on MLA's
website.
Will you be the Jodi Mattes Award winner? To find out, look at the
nomination form (please see web link below) and consider putting in a
nomination (and sending it to [log in to unmask]).
Best wishes,
Marcus Weisen
Health and Disability Adviser
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
16 Queen Anne's Gate
London SW1H 9 AA
tel: 020-72731408
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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.
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