Hey All You might remember that a few weeks back there was a post about the AIMIA awards (http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01675.html), and that I kicked off a bit of a discussion about the apparent lack of recognition for standards in the awards process.
Anyway I got a call the other day from the project manager of the awards & we had a bit of a chat about the current state of the awards, the comments on the WSG list and what can be done in future to address the concerns that we had. Just goes to show... be careful of what you ask for - you might just get it ;) So I was thinking I'd put it to you lot - what can AIMIA do to encourage truly high quality, accessible and standards compliant design? Points to consider are: - This is AIMIA, they cover Web, CDRom, DVD, Games, Kiosks and so on, so saying make sure all contestant must be AAA will be missing the point. - Entry is limited to AIMIA members, I have no idea how big or small this group is but we have to deal with the fact that we are dealing with a limited subset of sites. - Judges come from a range of backgrounds (advertising, project management, design and development) - how could they effectively work technical criteria into the judging process? - Things that matter to coders don't always matter to normal people (even though we know coders are always right :) - We've got "four pillars" of standards (accessibility, validation, separation of content & presentation and semantics) - which ones are important in this context and how do you judge each? I want to pool any the ideas we get and send something semi-formal back to AIMIA. We can't just sit here complaining like those two old men in the Muppets, they've given us an opportunity to influence this awards process - lets see what we can come up with. Please think in the context of the existing awards (http://www.aimia.com.au), look at what they already have in place and consider how this can be adjusted rather than designing a new awards process from scratch. Be practical & put some thought in. They have shown us some respect by looking for our feedback, I'm sure we can make a valuable contribution here. Cheers Mark ------------------ Mark Stanton Technical Director Gruden Pty Ltd Tel: 9956 6388 Mob: 0410 458 201 Fax: 9956 8433 http://www.gruden.com ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
