In 2006 the awards were extended to include entries from Wales, in partnership with CyMAL (Museums, Libraries and Archives Wales), for the first time.

Shortlist

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
This site has a very clear layout, is easy-to-use, with sharp images and a "text enriched" version as an alternative to the Flash kids website.

The Portable Antiquities Scheme
A site with a clear structure, well labelled links, good explanatory text and truly sharp images of Roman coins which can be magnified.

i-Map: The Everyday Transformed, Tate Modern
A site that sets itself the challenge to make modern art accessible to blind and partially sighted people and uses animation to do so.

Their Reading Futures; The Reading Agency
This web learning resource for public libraries performed best in automated accessibility testing. Excellent use of accessibility technology and accessibility information.

The History of Wolverhampton; Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service, Wolverhampton Archives and Wolverhampton Local Studies
This site has a simple and clear design and is pleasant to use. Site design was tuned as a result of comments by disabled users.

Speaking Volumes, Wakefield Library and Information Service
This website was built to allow readers to write content. Blind and partially sighted users chat about their favourite books and audio-book readers.

Winners: i-Map: The Everyday Transformed, Tate Modern
This site does what seems impossible to many people, by making modern art (and its key concepts) accessible to blind and partially sighted people. It is one of the few to describe collections for visually impaired people. The images are highly contrasted and made visible to partially-sighted people. The judges were unanimous in selecting the winning site, which they agreed had yet more ground-breaking qualities and was destined to set the standard in global best practise. The site is already the world leader in making online collections accessible to blind and partially sighted people.

Jodi Award for Excellence with Low Budgets

Commendation for Excellence in User Involvement: The History of Wolverhampton; Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service
This site is notable for its simplicity in design and use. It was fine-tuned using feedback received from disabled site users and is a good example of the benefits of user involvement in website development.

Winner: Speaking Volumes, Wakefield Library and Information Service.

The Awards Event

The Awards were presented by Mark Wood, MLA Chairman, at a ceremony held at the British Museum on 5 April 2006. Before the Awards, Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum welcomed the guests to the Museum. Other speakers were: Matthew Cock of the BM New Media Unit ; Marcus Weisen, Health and Disability Adviser, MLA and Chair of the Jodi Awards Judges; Fazilet Hadi, Group Director of Policy and Advocacy, RNIB, and Nick Poole, Director, MDA.

Judges

Marcus Weisen, Health and Disability Adviser, MLA (Chair)
Nina Baptiste, YMLAC
Ross Parry, Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester
Jon Pratty, Editor, 24 Hour Museum

The judges were supported by the results of automated and user testing commissioned from designedforall. The user panel included blind, partially sighted, dyslexic and deaf people.