Re: Good news for accessible digital publishing (and for this group)

This is awesome! Congrats Gregorio and Rachel and everyone who was involved!

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 7:56 AM Bill Kasdorf <kasdorf.bill@gmail.com> wrote:

> These are both very well deserved awards. As a member of the jury for this
> award (which I couldn't reveal until after the announcement), I want you to
> know--Gregorio and Rachel (and Cristina)--that the entries were
> particularly strong this year, and there were many of them, almost all of
> them doing work deserving of the awards. That in itself is really good news
> about accessibility. But there was very strong consensus among the jurors
> that Macmillan Learning and LIA should get the awards. You are both doing
> exemplary work--just what the awards are intended to highlight. I'm sorry
> the LBF was cancelled so that you couldn't accept the awards in person.
>
> Bravo/brava!!
>
> --Bill
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 8:13 AM Gregorio Pellegrino - Fondazione LIA <
> gregorio.pellegrino@fondazionelia.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear everyone,
>> at this time of global difficulties, I am writing to share some good news
>> for the world of accessibility and EPUB.
>>
>> As you may have read in the last days, the winners of the ABC Consortium
>> had been announced and both are part of this Community Group!
>>
>>    - Macmillan Learning (represented in this group by our great co-chiar
>>    Rachel) was recognized in the publisher category as the first Global
>>    Certified Accessible (GCA) publisher producing products and learning
>>    materials in accessible formats for students with different kinds of vision
>>    impairment.
>>    - Fondazione LIA (humbly represented by me) was recognized in the
>>    initiative category for their achievements in improving the accessibility
>>    of e-books and other digital publications for people who are blind,
>>    visually impaired or otherwise print-disabled.
>>
>> As we all are living a very difficult situation, this news fosters us to
>> keep working and hope to be back to normal very soon. For us the award is a
>> very big stimulus to continue our commitment to foster the creation of an
>> accessible publishing ecosystem and collaborate with others organizations
>> to achieve this goal.
>>
>> https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8380
>>
>> We really hope to have a chance soon to celebrate with you all properly.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Gregorio
>>
>>
>> ---
>> Gregorio Pellegrino
>> *Chief Accessibility Officer*
>>
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