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Thanks to everyone who voted! We are very proud of our awards for People’s Choice and 2nd Place overall! We will continue to work with Harold McMillian and the Diverse Arts team to help them realize their dream archival website.
We participated in a website building contest that matched a non-profit organization with a team of designers/programmers to build a fully disabled accessible website fulfilling the needs (and wishes!) of the non-profit from start to finish in 28 DAYS! My team, Unchain my Art was matched with the Diverse Arts: East End Cultural Heritage District, to build an archival site using mapping and original source material to preserve the art and culture of Black East Austin.
In just 28 days, our team accomplished many technical feats, including the ability to switch from the graphic site to a basic no-graphic site (to help users using a text-to-speech-reader navigate easier) we captioned video so hearing impaired users can enjoy the interviews, and we also created an integrated mapping feature that allows users to see what was happening in different areas of the East End Cultural District at different times.
The content management system we created is set up so that volunteers at Diverse Arts can add edit and delete content in an organized fashion, allowing them to catalog and make available their copious amount of original source material (interviews, documents, audio files, etc.)
We lost a few team members due to the flu, and it was a race to the finish yesterday (our home page still looks a little naked) but we are very proud of the accessibility and technical foundation we’ve created for Diverse Arts. We hope they will be able to use and build on this web site for many years to come!
See the list of winners on the Knowbility website!
Congratulations to all participants. See you next year!
