# Web accessibility expert joins Fortune Cookie

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/10/09/web-accessibility-expert-joins-fortune-cookie/
- Published: 2006-10-09T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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.”

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