Talking Hands Award Sections
Talking Hands Award And Graphics
Our Talking Hands award winning sites, upon notification that they had received two or more nominations (web site owner may make a nomination) for our award (a 50 word or less citation) and received unanimous approval by our judging panel, were asked to give us permission to list the site along with a laudation in our honoree's section, were then listed in the teaching objectives under which their site excels and were sent the award styles for which their site qualified along with notification of the site inclusion and laudation.
The special edition gold award is available upon update to a WAI approved and accessible web site or the initial presentation. (See change below).
Award Styles
Award Established 15 September, 1986. The Talking Hands award first appeared on Unix and Lynx based machines. A formal process was established in 1998, honoree's were recorded and the award was made available for viewing on personal computers.
New Styles Adopted and Approved 27 January, 2003. For Replacements, please request by mail.
Award Style-One, Two and Three For Web Sites Which Are Not WAI Compliant.
Award Style One
Award Design by Jennie.
Award
Style Two
Award Design by Jennie.
Award Style-Three, and Four For Web Sites Which Are WAI and W3C or WDG Compliant.
Award Style Three-Gold Edition (small)
Award Design by Jennie.
Award Style Four-Gold Edition (large)
Award Design by Jennie.
Award Honorees
The Talking Hands Award Winners are presented in two forms. First by month and year; and secondly by teaching objective. A site may be contained under more than one teaching objective, but starting in 2002 only under one teaching objective
Quarterly and Annual Awards
Approved May 1, 2003 and applied retroactively to January 1, 2003 are quarterly awards and an annual award. The quarterly and annual awards have been created by Jo Phillips. We are extremely proud to display artwork by this talented graphic artist.
During the month following the close of a quarter, the Talking Hands Award judges shall be given a ballot of all the recipients for the quarter and the site receiving the most votes will represent the collective teaching and learning. The Talking Hands Award judges shall select among the four quarterly honoree's, the honored site for the year.
If we have a tie for a quarter or the year, the award co-coordinator will cast the tie breaking vote.
Gold Edition Change: Effective June 18, 2004 the gold edition of the Talking Hands Award will be presented to honoree's whose web site creations are WAI Level A or greater and W3C and WDG compliant (no errors or warnings), nor in the FireFox browser with Tidy inline.
The quarterly honor roll will mark a website who achieves the level one or better WCAG/WAI as gold. However only those websites which achieve WDG/W3C too will be presented our gold edition award.
The AS! rating of 5.0+ and the second level award would both apply effective June 18, 2004. The latest change in the criteria is December 31, 2004
Award Design by Jennie.
Our Talking Hands honorees may be found either by searching by the year the honor was earned or by the teaching and learning element in which they excell. For a status of applicants please refer to the statistics section which is found on the navigation bar to the right.
