[Sigia-l] Jodi Mattes Webaccessibility Aw

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Here is another message that I came accross in another list, that I think
might be of interest to list members.

Regards,
BKA

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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>    
‚he closing date for nominations Friday 11 March 2005. 

Marcus Weisen
Health and Disability Adviser
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
For information on access and social inclusion:
www.mla.gov.uk/action/learnacc/00access.asp
<http://www.mla.gov.uk/action/learnacc/00access.asp>    

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Bekir Kemal Ataman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Archives and Records Management
Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

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