Web accessibility expert joins Fortune Cookie
Howard Lake | 9 October 2006 | News
The Royal National Institute of the Blind’s (RNIB) accessibility champion Julie Howell has joined web design agency Fortune Cookie.
Howell has worked for 12 years at the RNIB and is respected as a champion for and authority on web accessibility and the rights of disabled customers to use websites. She is Technical Author of the Disability Rights Commission and British Standards Institution’s recently published ./guidance on commissioning accessible websites (PAS 78).
She will take up her new position of Director of Public Relations at Fortune Cookie on 6 November.
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Fortune Cookie’s Managing Director, Justin Cooke, said: “This appointment is one of the most exciting we have made in Fortune Cookie’s nine year history. To date we have worked hard to prove that gorgeous-looking, usable, accessible websites deliver a return on investment. Now we must broaden the issue of accessibility so that it appeals and is relevant to the biggest brands in the world. There is no-one in the UK more capable of achieving this than Julie Howell.”
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.