Annual Accessible Web Design Contest Begins

The Mid-Atlantic Consortium on Accessible Information Technology in Education has announced its 2005-2006 Accessible Web Design Contest.

K-12 schools in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington D.C., and West Virginia are invited to submit their website to the competition. Judges will evaluate the sites based on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Priority 1 Checkpoints and Section 508 Standards.

Websites entered are categorized into four areas and will be judged against other entrants from the same category. The four categories are:

1. Elementary school student designed websites
2. Middle school student designed websites
3. High school student designed websites
4. Non-student designed sites (i.e., school or district websites)

All contest entries are due on December 16, 2005 and winners will be announced in March 2006. The most accessible and creative website in each category will be awarded a digital camera. The most accessible site of all the entries will receive a grand prize of a digital video camera.

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

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