iansyst sponsors JISC TechDis Award for Accessibility
iansyst is proud to be a sponsor of the JISC TechDis Awards
Many people find it difficult to access the world of books. Whether through dyslexia, visual impairment or motor difficulties, thousands of ‘would be’ readers are destined to be ‘unable to’ readers. However, commonplace technologies can transform access to books. Where librarians and publishers work together to provide digital copies to disabled users, magnification, colour change, keyboard access and text to speech can transform the reading experience giving genuine independence to the user.
Elsevier, a leading publisher of science and health information, has won the first ever JISC TechDis Publisher Lookup Award for Accessibility announced at the London Bookfair on Wednesday, 21st April 2010.
Elsevier are awarded JISC TechDis Award
The Awards recognise publishers who have excelled in changing and adapting their business processes to meet their customers accessibility needs and are the brainchild of Alistair McNaught, senior advisor at JISC TechDis. Alistair said: “Elsevier were selected from a really strong field of candidates. Judges were impressed with Elseviers response rates to customer enquiries and their strong, embedded accessibility strategy. Accessibility is a cross-management responsibility at Elsevier and evidently part of the organisational culture.”
Putting the spotlight on accessibility benefits everyone and now, thanks to the Awards, we’ve created a kind of community of practice where publishers are learning from each other.”
For more information about the Publisher Lookup Award for Accessibility you can read the Press Release
JISC TechDis Publisher Lookup Award for Library Service: Providing alternative formats
For several years, JISC TechDis has been working with publishers to clarify accessibility issues and raise awareness of the needs of people with disabilities. The JISC TechDis Publisher Lookup Award for Library Service seeks to identify and commend publishers whose responsiveness to requests brings significant benefits to disabled learners.
We are delighted that this award is sponsored by Dolphin and iansyst – companies with proven track records in supporting disabled users to access learning in a variety of formats.
The vision of the award is to raise awareness of the benefit of digital formats for disabled users so that everyone – learner, tutor, support worker and publisher – can be better equipped to use technology to transform learning opportunities.
The publisher lookup awards seek to raise awareness and improve practice by offering
- librarians a chance to nominate publishers who have shown real professionalism in meeting requests for alternative formats - see JISC TechDis Library Award. Closing date Friday 03 September 2010.
For more information about the Library award please see the Press Release.
created by: Jan Taylor
published on: 10 May 2010
