NSDesign Blog » awards http://www.nsdesign.co.uk/blog interesting thoughts and other stuff... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:38:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2008 http://www.nsdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/07/nominet-best-practice-challenge-2008/ http://www.nsdesign.co.uk/blog/2008/07/nominet-best-practice-challenge-2008/#comments Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:26:59 +0000 Gary http://www.nsdesign.co.uk/blog/?p=43 It was an honour for NSDesign to represent the Scottish Web Community at last week’s Best Practice Challenge held at London’s Science Museum, and while we didn’t come home with an award, it was a very proud night all the same.

“The judges commended NSDesign as a great example of a UK enterprise that has taken the drive for continuous improvement to heart”

Personally, I think it was the kilts that did it….

Check out the photos here.

All in all, it was a great night, and just to mingle among the “big guns” of the industry was worthwhile, not to mention chewing the ear off Nick Horne – former UK ambassador to the United Nations (and all round nice guy!), and Emily Taylor (Nominet’s Director or Legal and Policy)…  Just so they remember who NSDesign are for next year !!

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The awards themselves are essentially about making the internet a better more accessible place, and so it’s a great pleasure for us simply being shortlisted among other giants within the industry.  Accessibility has always been at the forefront of what we do at NSDesign, so to gain some recognition for this (and other initiatives we get involved in) is fantastic.

Talking of accessibility – the European Union has just published a public survey on accessiblity, which aims to gauge the current situation with regard accessible websites, the costs/efforts associated with building them, and the affects (and improvements) they give to disabled users.  The research will all be used to determine if a broader EU law on accessibility (rather than a country by country implementation of different laws) is a better approach to take than what we currently have.  Pretty interesting stuff, and I’d encourage everyone to complete it.  It’s just a shame their own survey doesn’t meet accessibility guidelines!

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