Rune Andersen recognized for web accessibility efforts

Congratulations to Rune Anderson, recipient of NTNU´s annual Accessibility Prize for 2007/08 (Tilgjengelighetspris) for his campaign concerning web accessibility at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, and on websites in general.

Andersen, a web administrator and programmer for IME faculty, has evangelized the advisability, techniques, and payoffs of building accessible web pages and heeding web standards for a number of years now. While the university´s publishing system choice—the table-based Oracle Portal combined with the cumbersome eScenic Web Studio—fails miserably in terms of adherence to many of the basic principles, Andersen´s customized DokuWiki template complies to both the spirit and the letter of the accessibility standards. This template is freely available for installation, and is already the preferred publishing tool of many groups at NTNU.

The annual prize is awarded every year, by NTNU´s Council for Students with Disibilities (Råd for studenter med funksjonshemming) to a person or group that has significantly contributed to making NTNU accessible for all.