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2009 Winners
2009 Winners
Around 100 nominations have been submitted from 24 countries including countries outside Europe like United States, Australia, Syrian Arab Republic in the area of e-Accessibility and inclusive ICT, all of them of remarkable significance, that have been evaluated and 19 finalists have been selected for the four ACCESS-IT awards and 44 additional nominations have received the label of ACCESS-IT 2009 good practice label. All the finalists as well as the ones receiving the ACCESS-IT 2009 good practice label are included in a special electronic publication on ACCESS-IT 2009. In this respect, a wide range of people with disabilities and elderly and their communities (carers, family, rehabilitation experts, SEN professionals, AT experts, etc) from all around Europe can be informed on the awarded ICT services and products and how they can use them or take paradigms.
All finalists were rewarded at the ACCESS-IT 2009 event ceremony on the 23rd Sept, and many key players involved in the area of e-Accessibility and Assistive Technology attended this unique event.
Four Award Winners were selected and awarded as follows:
ACCESS-IT@Home
This award recognised an ICT based service that advances independent living for people with disabilities and elderly was awarded to BBC for their iPlayer solution.
Download the presentation of iPlayer from BBC (2.8MB)
ACCESS-IT@Work
This award recognised a service that advances the employability of people with disability and it was awarded to ECDL Hellas for their certification services for blind people.
Download the presentation of certification services for blind people from ECDL (1.61MB)
ACCESS-IT@Learning
This award recognised a free service that facilitates the creation by anyone of accessible electronic documents for blind people and was awarded to RoboBraille.
Download the presentation of RoboBraille (522KB)
ACCESS-IT@Web2.0
This award recognised an accessible social networking facility and it was awarded to Accessibletwitter.com. This award was endorsed by IWA (International Webmasters Association).
Download the presentation of Accessibletwitter.com (959KB)
Selection process:
The selection process was based on four award criteria that assess the relevance for the aiming award, its impact, its affordability and openness, and its validation level. In addition to the four award winners, there were 15 finalists that also received a mini award as well as 44 nominations received the ACCESS-IT 2009 good practice label. Summary information as well as reference and contact details are included in a special electronic publication. In case, you wish to receive the publication in simple text format, please contact us.
For photos from the awards and the whole events overall, please check our Photos’ section.
The Award Ceremony included also a presentation on upcoming accessibility features given by Mr Matt Lambert and Mrs Sarah Foxall, Microsoft UK, as well as a key note speech and demonstration on ICT accessibility barriers and solutions given by Robin Christopherson from AbilityNet.