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Kelly Harrison

Web and Digital Marketing Manager, RNIB

Biography

Kelly Harrison

Kelly Harrison is a web professional with over 9 years of experience in the field. Moving to the web from a journalist background, Kelly started her web life as the sole member of webteam at London Borough of Islington. As the importance of the web grew, so did the team and Kelly was promoted to web manager, with responsibility for the website (run on Documentum) and the intranet (run on Alfresco).

In her time at Islington Council, Kelly led on two website redesigns and two intranet redesigns, which involved moving to different content management systems.

In 2008, Kelly joined RNIB as web manager, and has been involved in implementing and customising elements of Sharepoint 2007 to make it accessible to RNIB Surf Right standards. In the past 12 months she has been key in re-launching the intranet and website.

RNIB

Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is a UK charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight loss.

Their pioneering work helps anyone with a sight problem - not just with braille and Talking Books, but with imaginative and practical solutions to everyday challenges. The organization also provides information on eye conditions and provide support and advice for people living with sight loss.

Presentation

The road less travelled! Delivering accessible websites...

Case: RNIB

Track: Emerging technologies
Conference Day #1, Wednesday November 3rd, 10.30-12.00

Much is spoken about web accessibility, but what does making your website accessible actually mean? As long as people can read your web pages that's all that matters, right?!

UK based charity, Royal National Institute for Blind People worked with a supplier (Content and Code) to make SharePoint 2007 accessible to our standards (RNIB's Surf Right accreditation). As this is higher than WCAG 2.0 'AA', this was no easy task!

With SharePoint 2007, we wanted to take a product that would be able to deliver an excellent user friendly intranet, website and e-commerce solution, which would be future proof, and also be able to replicate all the functionality we had on our website and online shop that had been developed over 5 years.

Find out what we did, how we did it and the challenges we faced as we took an off the shelf product and made it accessible and usable, both front and back end, to our exacting standards.

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Demo: An accessible intranet, from front to back

Case: RNIB

Track: Intranet
Conference Day #1, Wednesday November 3rd, 13.00-14.00

A chance to see what a thoroughly accessible intranet looks like. The intranet of Royal National Institute for Blind People is above AA standards on both front and back end.

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