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

Congratulations 🥳

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 6:41 PM Siegman, Tzviya <tsiegman@wiley.com> wrote:

> Congratulations! So well deserved.
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> *Tzviya Siegman*
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> Information Standards Lead
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> *From:* Nellie McKesson <nelliemckesson@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, March 13, 2020 1:31 PM
> *To:* Bill Kasdorf <kasdorf.bill@gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Gregorio Pellegrino - Fondazione LIA <
> gregorio.pellegrino@fondazionelia.org>; public-epub3@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: Good news for accessible digital publishing (and for this
> group)
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> This is awesome! Congrats Gregorio and Rachel and everyone who was
> involved!
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> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 7:56 AM Bill Kasdorf <kasdorf.bill@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Bravo/brava!!
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> --Bill
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> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 8:13 AM Gregorio Pellegrino - Fondazione LIA <
> gregorio.pellegrino@fondazionelia.org> wrote:
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> Dear everyone,
> at this time of global difficulties, I am writing to share some good news
> for the world of accessibility and EPUB.
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> 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!
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>    - 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.
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> 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.
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> https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8380
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> We really hope to have a chance soon to celebrate with you all properly.
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> Best wishes,
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> Gregorio
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