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History of the AccessAbility SIG—SIG Honors

* SIG History * Photo Archives * Logo Design History
* SIG Honors * SIG Members' Honors * SIG Managers * Publications Awards * Web Site Awards

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Introduction

This page contains a record of recognition of achievement awards given to the AccessAbility SIG by the Society.

Through its award programs, STC honors both individuals and chapters, communities, and SIGs. Depending on the award, recipients are recognized for professional achievements or service to the Society. STC awards individuals for both their professional achievements and their work at the Society, chapter, community, and SIG levels.

SIG Honors Index

SIG Members' Honors
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Disclaimer

The AccessAbility SIG does not diagnose, prescribe, or endorse. We simply provide information to those who want it. For more information about product endorsements and other disclaimers, please see our Legal Information page.

 

Community Achievement Awards

The Chapter Achievement Award recognizes a chapter’s outstanding accomplishments towards the goals of STC. This award is presented only to chapters that have distinguished themselves by exceeding ordinary expectations. Beginning with the 2001 awards, chapter achievement awards were separated into three categories: Merit, Excellence, and Distinguished.

 

Community of Distinction award for 20062006 – In the SIGs with under 600 members category, the A-SIG received a Community Achievement Award of Distinction at the 53rd Annual Conference, May 2006. The citation reads: "For outstanding success in completely aligning initiatives with strategic plan and accomplishing them." SIG managers: Karen Mardahl, Mike Murray, Dan Voss

chapter excellence award for 20062006 – In the SIGs with under 600 members category, the A-SIG received a Community Achievement Award of Excellence at the 53rd Annual Conference, May 2006. The citation reads:

  • The number of initiatives the A-SIG accomplished this year is mind-boggling! Congratulations!!
  • The organization and presentation of supporting materials and attention to detail are excellent. It makes judging easy and enjoyable and leaves no unanswered questions-as you suggested, it did give me a complete picture of your activities. It is evident a lot of effort and hard work went into the presentation of the SIG's activities.
  • The following two ideas are especially innovative:
    • Negotiating 15 percent from Amazon.com for accessibility-related books purchased through the links on the AccessAbility SIG web site.
    • Increasing membership through inquiries concerning accessibility. (The SIG responds to the inquiry, asking the person inquiring to join the SIG team, which results in many new members and, in some cases, joining STC).
  • Commendable actions:
    • Efforts to help victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita
    • Well thought-out rechartering process
    • Excellent job aligning strategic plan with rechartering
    • Two prestigious awards for your web site
    • Great job recognizing members' accomplishments and service to the SIG
    • International leadership on accessibility
  • The web site and newsletter are superior. What great resources for your membership.

SIG managers: Karen Mardahl, Mike Murray, Dan Voss

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Community Pacesetter Awards

The Community Pacesetter Award recognizes communities for outstandingly innovative and successful activities. Unlike the Community Achievement Award, which recognizes a community for exceptional strength across many activity types, the Community Pacesetter Award is designed to celebrate excellence in a specific activity or event.

Photo of Fabien Vais with Pacesetter award
Photo of Fabien Vais with 2005 Pacesetter Award

A SIG may be nominated for a Pacesetter award only by the SIG advocate on the board of directors and only for an activity or event. A SIG may be selected for a Pacesetter award only by a two-thirds vote of the board of directors. The SIG advocate may nominate any number of SIGs for the award; however, the board bestows only a maximum of two SIG Pacesetter awards in any given year.

While we are the smallest SIG, with 262 members as of June 30, 2005 the A-SIG is certainly one of the most active of all 21 of the Society's Special Interest Groups.

2005 – Award citation reads: "For reaching out to STC members with special needs and disabilities; for supporting those members by developing an excellent Accessibility Guide for the annual conference in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005; for setting an example for all STC communities by creating a highly accessible SIG Web site; and for contributing to the accessibility of the Society Web site." SIG manager: Fabien Vais.

The A-SIG is collecting information for a record of its history. If you have pictures you'd like to add to our Album of chapter photo archives or information that will fill in the blanks, please send e-mail to

 

SIG History • Photo Archives • SIG Honors • SIG Members' Honors • SIG Managers
• Publications Awards • Web Site Awards

 

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Karen Mardahl
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Lisa Pappas
A-SIG Co-Manager:
strategic planning, administration
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