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, 2008. For Replacements, please request by mail.
Jo Phillips also created our daily award graphic. In the place of sample will be the honoree and the date of presentation. This is only our third change in award graphics, which now coordinates both the award and our backgrounds, quarterly and annual awards.
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 staff 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.
Effective June 18, 2004 the enhanced recognition edition of the Talking Hands Award will be presented to honoree's whose web site creations are
WAI Level A or greater or an equivalent determined by using online tools and in the FireFox browser with Tidy inline.1
Presentation of the enhanced recognition edition is based upon results determined during administration of our criteria rubric and are not adjusted after presentation. But if known to have become non compliant, we shall work with an enhanced recognition honoree to regain their valued status.2
The quarterly honor roll will mark a website who achieves the level one or better WCAG/WAI as gold, which distinguishes what is termed regular from enhanced recognition honorees.
The enhanced recognition is not to be considered as another award level, rather as intended, enhanced recognition. Therefore any previous honoree who becomes eligible may simply request an award graphic replacement.3
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.
Jo Phillips excellent web services may be found at Spiral Pixel web development and graphic design. She offers services for all of your creative needs, from web to print, photography to illustration.
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.
Footnote:
1Exceptions are allowed on a case by case basis. For national initiatives, demonstration web pages and so forth.
2Remaing true to our original intent when the Talking Hands award was first found on the internet in 1986 required changes.
3Since 1986 the Talking Hands Award has undergone changes, but only a few. The previous graphics are found in our Award Museum.