Web Accessibility Contest Announced

The Mid-Atlantic Consortium on Accessible Information Technology in Education announces its first annual Website Accessibility Contest. K-12 schools in Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania are invited to submit their Websites for consideration. Entries must be submitted by February 28, 2004, using the form available at http://adainfo.org/IT/home.htm. The organizers of the contest hope it will increase interest among school districts in improving the accessibility of their Website.

Entrants can submit their Website in one of the following categories:

• elementary school (student developed)
• middle school (student developed)
• high school (student developed)
• non-student developed (including district wide).

The sites will be judged during the month of March, with the winners to be announced in April, 2004. The top site in each category will be awarded a digital camera; second place will receive Web authoring software, and third place will be given Dreamweaver.

Judging will be based on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Priority 1 Checkpoints and Section 508 Web Standards. All entries must include the following components:

• at least three graphics (photographs or others)
• a table
• at least three hypertext links to pages created by teams (not links to external pages)
• navigational tools.

For more information on the Web Accessibility Contest, please visit http://adainfo.org/IT/events.htm or contact the DATI.