# Awards, articles and videos

The goal of this page is to compile a list of accolades and positive mentions for the Web Experience Toolkit. Please help out by adding any accolades or positive mentions that have not already been listed.

## Awards

Award | Event | Year
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Excellence in Public Service Delivery | Government Technology Exhibition and Conference (GTEC) | 2012
People's Choice | Association of Public Sector Information Professionals (DPI) | 2011
Share & Re-Use | Association of Public Sector Information Professionals (DPI) | 2011

## Articles/Blogs

Title | Date | Author | Publication
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CodeFest draws 500 for a better web | 2014-08-19 | Tom Pechloff | Ottawa Business Journal
Keyboard-Only Navigation for Improved Accessibility (WET in use on the CIC site is given as an example) | 2014-04-06 | Marieke McCloskey | Nielsen Norman Group
Open source driving digital innovation | 2014-02-04 | Todd Akers | Canadian Government Executive
Codefest 2013: Lessons Learned (only accessible on Government of Canada networks) | 2013-10-30 | Meghan Hellstern & Laura Wesley | Communications Community Newsletter
Fork Your Government: Github Opens A Portal For Wonks | 2013-10-16 | Anya Kamenetz | Fast Company
GitHub Takes on the Government | 2013-10-15 | Todd Wasserman | Mashable
Canadian web experience toolkit | 2013-10-14 | Ben Balter | GitHub
Mobile Code Sharing Catalog Snippet: Web Experience Toolkit | 2013-09-12 | Jacob Parcell | Howto.gov
WxT Codefest Today: Keep Calm and Hack the Government | 2013-08-08 | Tanya Snook | spydergrrl.com
How the Web Experience Toolkit is changing how we view Public Servants | 2013-07-23 | Richard Pietro | My Einstein Job (Personal Blog)
Open source solutions offered through Canada's web Experience Toolkit | 2013-05-06 | Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernmentIT
How Canada is Revolutionizing Digital Governance | 2013-04-19 | Andrea Sigritz | DigitalGov
WetKit steals the show at DrupalCamp Ottawa | 2013-04-19 | Andrea Sigritz | DigitalGov
Canadian Coders Solve Mystery of Open Source Government | 2013-01-11 | Robert McMillan | Wired
The day I discovered Web Experience Toolkit Distribution | 2012-11-30 | Roberto Montero | Personal blog
The right solutions – by design | 2012-10-09 | Laura Wesley | Canadian Government Executive
The Canadian Government published their first Github Repo months ago | 2012-08-24 | Various | Reddit programming discussion
Usability for Canadian Government Websites | 2012-07-11 | Lucia Harper | The Other Harper

## Videos

Title | Event | Time of WET reference
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CodeFest 2014 Design Jam @ 1125 | Web Experience Toolkit CodeFest 2014 Design Jam (2014-08-14 to 2014-08-15) | Entire video
CodeFest 2013 | Web Experience Toolkit CodeFest 2013 (2013-08-08 to 2013-08-09) | Entire video
Pull: Richard Pietro on Technology and Government | Web Experience Toolkit CodeFest 2013 (2013-08-09) | Entire video
Web Experience Toolkit CodeFest 2013 - Day 2 | Web Experience Toolkit CodeFest 2013 (2013-08-09) | Entire video
Web Experience Toolkit CodeFest 2013 - Day 1 | Web Experience Toolkit CodeFest 2013 (2013-08-08) | Entire video
@TonyclementCPC speaking about the new open gig platform used on www.data.gc.ca... With a throw out to #wxt | socialcam (Richard Pietro, 2013-06-18) | Entire video
Exploring Canada's Web Experience Toolkit | HowTo.gov Webinar (2013-04-17) | Entire video. There's also a blog post about it.
Nick Schonning & Laura Wesley present WET at A11yTO Meet-up - video by HTML5_Toronto | Toronto Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meet-up (2013-04-16) | Entire video. There's also a Storify of the tweets
Creating dynamic and accessible content in Drupal 7 using WAI-ARIA | DrupalCon Sydney (2013-02-07) | 15:45 to 20:06
GitHub in Government | New York State Senate Capitol Camp (2012-11-16) | 9:35 to 9:47 and 17:15 to 20:00

Date modified:
  2014-08-22