Team MicroAssist Takes Home First Prize in Knowbility's AIR Interactive!

Congratulations to Unchain My Art (AKA Team MicroAssist) for taking first place in the annual Accessiblitity Internet Rally! AIR-Interactive matches teams of web designers/developers with non-profit organizations to build new websites or enhance existing ones to make them more accessible for people with disabilities: the competition does an amazing job of increasing awareness of the tools and techniques that make the Internet accessible to everyone. 

Pavel Karoukin, Hiram, Jillian, and Ella Jane worked with Fito Kahn of the Austin Jazz Alliance to create a new website. The Austin Jazz Alliance began as a grass-roots organization started in an effort to help jazz musicians in Austin and Central Texas promote their music. It has since become an umbrella organization that brings together jazz musicians, jazz fans, and jazz related businesses.  Check out the Austin Jazz Alliance's new website!

Unchain My Art competed with several other teams to create the Austin Jazz Alliance's site. It was quite a challenge for the team; Fito is a previous AIR competitor and had an ambitious plan for the site. In just 30 days, the team was able to put together calendar modules, media players, blog pages, and more - all totally accessible, and even implementing new ARIA standards!

 Websites were judged on accessibility, creativity, usability,  aesthetics, and extensibility of concept to a larger website. Pavel, Jillian, Hiram, and Ella Jane worked extraordinarily hard and delivered fantastic results.

Again, congratulations to Unchain My Art, and thanks to Knowbility for putting on such a great event!