Recognizing achievement in websites and blogs. These categories will recognize your web-related achievements since the beginning of 2024. You may focus on any sort of achievement, including technical improvements, creative enhancements, increased visibility and viewership, complete or partial redesign, writing, user engagement - whatever you and your team have done since the beginning of 2024 that you want to crow about.

Nominations that won in the 2025 ABAs may be resubmitted for consideration in the 2026 ABAs. If they have been updated with recent achievements, they may be submitted to the same categories in which they won. If they have not been updated, they must be submitted to categories different from those in which they won.

Information to be submitted online for entries in these categories for the 2026 ABAs will include

a. An essay of up to 2,000 characters describing the nominated achievements, OR a video of up to five (5) minutes in length describing the same. Make sure that your entry focuses on your web-related accomplishments since the beginning of 2024, or the judges won't rate your nomination highly.

b. Any number of supporting files and web addresses that you may upload to our server to support your entry and provide more background information to the judges. These may include URLs, video clips, photographs, press reviews, news articles, and so on

c. Optionally, you may list creative and production credits for your nominated achievement(s): a list of people on your team who contributed to its success.

Web Achievement

Industry Categories

T10. Accounting
T11. Advertising, Marketing, & Public Relations
T12. Aerospace & Defense
T13. Automotive & Transport Equipment
T14. Banking
T15. Business Services
T16. Chemicals
T17. Computer Hardware
T18. Computer Software
T19. Computer Services
T20. Conglomerates
T21. Consumer Products - Durables
T22. Consumer Products - Non-Durables
T23. Diversified Services
T24. Electronics
T25. Energy
T26. Financial Services
T27. Food & Beverage
T28. Health Products & Services
T29. Hospitality & Leisure
T30. Insurance
T31. Legal
T32. Manufacturing
T33. Materials & Construction
T34. Media & Entertainment
T35. Metals & Mining
T36. Non-Profit Organizations
T37. Pharmaceuticals
T38. Real Estate
T39. Retail
T40. Telecommunications
T41. Transportation
T42. Travel / Lifestyle (new for 2026)
T43. Utilities

Specialty Categories

T44. Achievement in Accessibility: This category will recognize sites for their use of features and technologies to ensure that they are perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust.
T45. Achievement in Data Visualization: Only data visualization aspects of a site will be judged. Websites that demonstrate best-in-class use of data visualization by representing complex datasets in innovative, visually appealing, and easily comprehensible ways.
T46. Achievement in Email Newsletters (new for 2026)
T47. Achievement in Navigation/Structure: Sites that offer the best possible user experience through superior navigation and site structure. Only information architecture will be judged.
T48. Achievement in Online Training
T49. Achievement in Personal Blog or Website (new for 2026)
T50. Achievement in User Experience
T51. Achievement in User Interface Design
T52. Achievement in the Use of AI: This category will recognize innovative uses of AI and generative media tools on websites and blogs.
T53. Achievement in Web Writing/Content
T54. Achievement in Web Design
T55. Achievement in the Use of Photography
T56. Achievement in the Use of Video or Moving Image
T57. Technical Achievement of the Year: This category is for any site that sets an industry standard by using new, innovative web technology in an outstanding way that improves the overall experience.

Achievement in Mobile Design

T58. Achievement in Mobile User Experience (new for 2026)
T59. Achievement in Mobile User Interface (new for 2026)
T60. Achievement in Responsive Design for Mobile (new for 2026)