Volume 12, No. 4, Fall 2004	Previous Issues Subscribe to AT Messenger Download PDF Viewer
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Delaware Schools Take Home Top Honors

The Mid-Atlantic Consortium on Accessible Information Technology in Education has announced its First Annual Web Accessibility Contest winners and several Delaware schools took home top honors.

Schools in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington D.C., and West Virginia competed to create accessible Websites that would be useful and usable by all visitors including those with a disability.

In the student-designed category, Delcastle Technical High School tied for third place. In the non-student-developed category, Newark High School took first place while Christiana High School and Glasgow High School tied for second place. All winners will be receiving their prizes later this fall.

The Consortium has also announced its Second Annual Web Accessibility Contest for the 2004-2005 school year. The contest will begin on October 4, 2004 and all entries must be submitted by February 15, 2005 for consideration. Winners will be announced in April 2005.

All K-12 schools in the Mid-Atlantic region are invited to submit their Website to the competition. Again this year, judges will evaluate the sites based on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Priority 1 Checkpoints and Section 508 Standards. The home page of each site, as well as three links, created by the Web team (not external sites) will be judged.

For additional contest information and judging criteria, please visit the Consortium’s Website at http://www.adainfo.org/accessible/it/web_accessibility.asp.