Congratulations to the Winners of the W4A H5P Hackaton

Submitted by falcon on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 15:08

Wednesday April 13th a hackaton were taking place in Google Canada's offices as a W4A/WWW-2016 event. The aim of the hack was to improve accessibility within H5P. Below is a picture of H5P co-founder and core developer Thomas Marstrander giving an introduction to H5P.

Several improvements were made to the accessibility of H5P during the hackaton and I want to thank all the participants for their efforts in pushing H5P forwards in terms of accessibility. I also want to thank the organizers, W4A, PEAT and Google for hosting this great event.

Congratulations to the winners

All the teams made impressive contributions to H5P and deserve a lot of honor and credit for it.

One team stood out with improvements to several content types and was named the winner.

Their improvements required tackling quite a lot of complexity and will improve the accessibility for these content types substantially.

From the left: Josh Christianson (Project Director PEAT), Simone Laughton, Sara El Afia, (Volker Sorge represented on paper!), Philbert Tjong, Shahriar Rostami Dovom, Greg Gay (Chair of W4A).

I hope to see more of both the winning team and the other participants on h5p.test.schulcloud-thueringen.de and in our GitHub repositories and look forward to bringing more and more accessibility features to the H5P community in the time to come.