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And the winners are..
January 5, 2008
It has been a long time coming, however we are happy to accounce the winners for 2007's Accessibility In Focus Awards. There was a high level of entries, and our judges struggled to pick winners - but there can only be one from each category. So the congratulations goes to...
You have all shown great consideration to accessible web design, and have proven that it doesn't have to be restrictive or dull. We hope other people will look at your work and take inspiration. You can find out more about our winners, and what our judges thought about each site in our winners section.
We'd like to thank everyone who took part in the awards and made it a success, we had so many entries and its a shame more websites couldn't have won. We'd also like to thank our partners .Net Magazine, TheFWA, Reading Room and Brunel University. With these awards over, we look forward to the next set of Accessibility In Focus Awards starting Summer 2008 - more to be revealed soon.
Posted by: John Stewart
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Results coming soon
September 25, 2007
Our judges have been working like mad going through all the submitted sites to find a suitable winner and we're almost there.
Results will be released shortly, and an exact date will be revealed soon - in the mean time make sure you're signed up to our newsletter and we'll let you know then they are annouced.
Sorry its taking a little longer than expected and thank you for all your support!
Posted by: John Stewart
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Submissions Closed
August 2, 2007
The submissions have now been closed, and we'll continue to validate the entries we recieved over the last two weeks or so. Then all our entries will be passed onto our judges - and we'll annouce a winner at the end of August.
Keep checking back to the site for the confirmed date for annoucing the winners. Good luck!
Posted by: John Stewart
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Two days left!
July 30, 2007
The awards are coming to a close, and you have until the end of the day (23.59 BST) on 1st August to submit your websites!
Its not too late, and we'd love to see any sites that conform to our categories submitted.
Come 1st August we'll continue to validate the submissions and then pass them onto our panel of judges. We'll have a date for announcing the winners soon - so keep checking back!
Until then, good luck!
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A month down the line
May 31, 2007
The awards have been open just a month, and we are astonished by the response we have received. There have been a number of interesting entries, many of which seamlessly suiting are our categories others which still need a little work – we’re stilling sifting through all the entries to make sure they meet our requirements.
We’d like to thank everyone who has submitted their website(s) so far. For those that have not – remember you have until August 1st to submit your site, we look forward to seeing your entries.
We are proud to have had a truly international response to the awards with people visiting from our base in the United Kingdom through to Guatemala, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Singapore and with greatest international interest from Western Europe and North America. We have also had a number of international website entries, which are truely great. It just goes to show how the need for accessible web design is global.
As the awards continue we are working to keep project at the forefront. A week long advertising campaign with the theFWA starts on Monday 4th June, so make sure you head over and have a look. We’ll also have a feature in a up coming issue of .Net magazine – more information nearer the time. Our first newsletter is coming together nicely and we’re just adding the finishing touches. It’ll include updates on the awards, web accessibility tips and interviews with our judges - so make sure you are signed up.
Our website has also been graciously featured on a number of websites, and we thank them all for taking their time and effort to do so – and of course we thank for everyone visiting the site and sending us your e-mails of interest and support.
Posted by: John Stewart
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Submissions Open
May 1, 2007
We are proud to announce that the submissions are finally open for the 'Accessibility In Focus' awards. We're really excited to see what you guys have to submit, so head over to the submission page and get your sites in!
The submissions will be open for three months until the 1st August. This gives you time to re-factor your current website to make it accessible and eligible for one of our awards. It also means that if you don't have a website, or are starting a new web project - you have the chance to work on an accessible one and submit it to us.
Remember to sign up to our newsletter to receive that latest updates on how the awards are progressing, we'll also include accessibility tips and other interesting features on accessible web design.
Thanks for taking part!
Posted by: John Stewart
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Judges Announced
April 29, 2007
Over the last month we have been working hard to pull together some of the greatest minds in the world of web design, and we're pleased to annouce our judges for this year's awards.
Andy Budd
Andy joins us as the creative director of ClearLeft as well as a noticable face from many web design expos.
Richard Rutter
Richard, from Clearleft too, is an expert information architect with ten years experience developing commercial websites.
Rob Ford
Rob is the principle of one of the webs most popular design awards, TheFWA, and over the years has seen some of the most influential websites of the nets evolution.
Phil Jones
Phil is a web design consultant with unrivaled experience in the area of web design, he is also the chairman of Mook, a digital consultancy firm based in London.
If you would like to find out more about our judges and their work please look at our about section. As you'll probably agree, its a great group of judges each with strong specialities in different areas of web design. We would like to thank them for agreeing to take part in our project, and taking thier own time to judge the submissions.
With the judging standards high, your submissions will need to be up to scratch - so get designinga and submit your sites.
Posted by: John Stewart
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Website Complete
April 28, 2007
We're please to annouce that the Accessibility In Focus website is now complete. For a while we we're 'work in progress' while we put together and fine tuned the requirements for the awards and scouted the web for a group of judges with unrivaled knowledge in their fields.
We've also finalised our media partners and we would like to thank TheFWA and .Net Magazine for all their support and welcome them to the project.
Remember to check back on the 1st May to start submitting your sites, you have a while (until the 1st August to be exact) so if you've got nothing to submit right now - get your thinking caps on and get designing. Perhaps you'll work to make your current site accessible, or start and brand spanking new design, either way we'd love to see it.
Posted by: John Stewart
Filed under: Website