Articles by: jojomccid

This year’s “Disabled Friendly Website Awards” were held last July 10 at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) as part of the very first Philippine Web Design Conference spearheaded by the newly formed Philippine Web Designers Organization (PWDO). The Philippine Web Accessibility Group through its president and MCCID Training Director Jojo Esposa and the National Council on Disability Affairs presented […]

Accessibility results for Asian Countries The Philippine compliance in terms of web accessibility is considered as the strongest in Asia as revealed by the research conducted by the University of Worcester in United Kingdom. Entitled, “Global e-government Web Accessibility: An Empirical Examination of EU, Asian and African Sites”, the study cited the Philippines as one of the strongest outlooks among […]

Good news! Finalists for 14 categories in the Best Blog Division of 2nd Philippine Blog Awards are out! Congratulations to PWAG members who are included in the list. BEST BLOG – ENTERTAINMENT Screensucked [http://www.screensucked.com] – Regnard Raquedan BEST BLOG – CULTURE & ARTS Dalityapi Unpoemed [http://www.dalityapi.com] – Sonny Villafania (PWAG Secretary) BEST BLOG – SPORTS Big Lakers Fan [http://biglakersfan.blogspot.com/] – […]

After passing their rigid criteria, the PWAG Official Website recently received the Gold Edition of the humble yet noteworthy Talking Hands Awards for 3rd Quarter of 2008 for being a freshly presented teaching site! It also received the Visual Delights Award under the Key Teaching-Learning Element. Based on the collective judgment of the awards committee, PWAG website merited the award […]

The National Council on Disability Affairs Board recently approved a resolution “Requesting the Commission on ICT/National Computer Center to Deputize the Philippine Web Accessibility Group (PWAG) to Undertake Web Accessibility Assessment of Websites”. Here is the complete Board Resolution No. 13 Series of 2008: “Resolution Requesting the Commission on ICT/National Computer Center to Deputize the Philippine Web Accessibility Group (PWAG) […]

Good news! Our fellow member, PWAG’s Internal Auditor and multi-awarded web designer Arielle Cruz has recently developed the first ever PWAG’s Online Web Accessibility Evaluator. He did it in less than two weeks. This is still in beta stage so expect some minor glitches in the results. What this evaluator is does NOT: It does NOT validate a document against […]

The PWAG Official Website is now one of the Top 25 Websites worldwide ranked by Google that focus on Web Accessibility category. The ranking was based on Google’s popular PageRank System. PWAG is ranked number 25 among the list of 167 websites listed under the Computers->Internet->Web Design and Development->Accessibility Sub-category above Accessify Resources, Royal National Institute for the Blind Resources […]

PWAG website now has 29 individual web pages including nine new entries inside the Resources page of all the important items discussed in Accessibleweb Yahoogroup. Before, a person must be a member of PWAG egroup first in order to access the contents. But now they are freely accessible to anyone on the Internet. This is also an easier way to […]