Excellence Through Accessibility Award
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Excellence through Accessibility Awards Ceremony 2008
Excellence through Accessibility Awards Ceremony 2007
The 2007 awards ceremony was held on 3rd December 2007.
Introduction
Excellence through Accessibility seeks to promote and reward a clear focus on and commitment to continuous improvement in accessibility of public services at all levels in participating organisations. To do this, the award encourages the development of policies, practices and relationships to ensure that achievements in accessibility are sustainable and meaningful to customers.
The Excellence through Accessibility award scheme acknowledges those Departments and Agencies under their remit that have taken steps to make their services more accessible. Through the Award, the NDA hopes to support the achievement of maximum accessibility of public services for people with disabilities in Ireland.
Award Guidelines and Criteria
The NDA has developed this set of 14 accessibility guidelines and 41 criteria for the Accessibility Award.
The guidelines have been drawn up after extensive consultation with Government Departments, state agencies, voluntary and community bodies and the NDA Standards Advisory Committee.
Public meetings took place in Dublin, Cork and Galway in June 2004. More than 40 organisations made submissions. In addition, the NDA held an Accessibility Conference, workshops with stakeholders and developed an audit tool to accompany these guidelines.
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