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Accessibility award for Danish Plone site
Danish Ministry of Science awards Plone company for exceptional web site.
With Plone it is easy to build web sites that are friendly to people with disabilities.
That was proven earlier today when a danish Plone web consultancy won the price "Best of the Web". The Danish Ministry of Science considered it to be the best among Danish web companies at building accessible web sites.
The judges awarded the website of Danish Center of Accessibility.
Their motivation was:
For a web site and Content Management System that not only meets all criterias, but also demonstrates a profound
knowledge in this area, has a good editor and professional design.
"Plone is a step ahead of other CMS's when it comes to accessibility of both authoring and presentation interfaces. We can see that becoming an increasingly important parameter when our clients chooses a CMS," says Sune Toft, managing partner.
In the competition Plone was competing with major web bureaus and commercial CMS' such as Synkron and Sitecore.
More info can be found on this site (in Danish).
Danish Center for Accessibility
Unfortunately, the Danish Government has decided to stop funding the Danish Center for Accessibility - however, this doesn't diminish what the Plone company mentioned here accomplished - the award comes from an independent evaluation board that evaluates web sites in Denmark, and it is a vote of confidence for Plone to get such an award.
Too bad politics gets in the way of the great work done here, but that's the way it is, I guess.