# Henshaws' website wins at Visionary Design Awards

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/12/06/henshaws039-website-wins-visionary-design-awards/
- Published: 2004-12-06T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Manchester based charity, Henshaws Society for Blind People, which supports blind
and visually impaired people across the north of England, has won the Visual Impairment
category at the Visionary Design Awards.
The Awards are part of an ongoing campaign
by the National Library for the Blind (NLB) to encourage website publishers and 
designers to consider access technology when designing sites.

 

 

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The Henshaws site was designed by London-based Poptel Technology, specialists in
accessible web design. Judges felt that accessibility was integral to the design
of the new site, and commended the extent to which the website meets the needs of
those using access technologies.

 

 

The NLB estimates that less than a third of all websites are currently accessible
to visually impaired people who use technologies such as magnification, text to 
speech, and refreshable Braille in order to access web-based services.

 

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