Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service’s (MAWWFRS) new website has recently won in the ‘Community Public Service’ category in the Web Excellence Awards.
The Web Excellence Awards is committed to promoting excellence on the web and setting high standards by recognizing digital creativity and innovation. The winners of the Web Excellence Awards are selected through a meticulous evaluation process, which is led by experts from diverse backgrounds, ensuring a fair assessment of multiple criteria including creativity, functionality, innovation and overall impact.
Launched in early July 2024, MAWWFRS’s website was designed and built by Connect Internet Solutions, following a competitive tender process. With a focus on accessibility and an improved user experience, MAWWFRS’s website is the result of months of development and testing.
Aled Lewis, MAWWFRS’s Head of Corporate Communications and Business Development, said:
“This award recognises our commitment to creating a platform that is not only visually compelling but is also highly functional, user-friendly and accessible, providing a key mechanism for engaging with the communities we serve.” “Working with Connect Internet Solutions has enabled us to develop a website which not only met our requirements but delivered significant improvement in a number of areas where we knew we were getting our highest numbers of visitors and its with thanks to a highly effective working relationship that we were able to achieve a website of such a high quality”
Connect Internet Solutions’ Managing Director, Janet Symes said:
“We’re thrilled that Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service’s website has been recognised by the Web Excellence Awards. We are really proud of the website and all the hard work that went into it; this was a true partnership between client and agency and the results of that speak for themselves. Congratulations to all the team at MAWWFRS.”
MAWWFRS’s new website has a suite of embedded assistive technology and tools to improve its accessibility, which includes a text-to-speech function, allowing users to have onscreen text read aloud. Users can also be able to change colours, contrast levels and fonts, zoom in without the text spilling off the screen, navigate most of the website using speech recognition software and more.