Welcome W4A 2008 5th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility 21/22 April 2008 - Beijing, China

W4A 2008

5th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility

21/22 April 2008 - Beijing, China

Your W4A Pack Should Include: Proceedings Booklet CD Challenge Evaluation Form Fill in by end of Last Coffee Break on Tuesday Various Flyers

Should Include:

Proceedings Booklet

CD

Challenge Evaluation Form

Fill in by end of Last Coffee Break on Tuesday

Various Flyers

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Return to us

We’ll process it!

Sponsorship Thanks to our sponsors & supporters: Microsoft Web Accessibility Challenge Sponsored by Microsoft for five years! Google Zakon Group Mozilla foundation Daisy Consortium

Thanks to our sponsors & supporters:

Microsoft

Web Accessibility Challenge Sponsored by Microsoft for five years!

Google

Zakon Group

Mozilla foundation

Daisy Consortium

Awards Best Paper Award - technical paper John M Slatin Award - communication paper

Best Paper Award - technical paper

John M Slatin Award - communication paper

Special Issue New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Chair: Leo Ferres (specissue-2008@w4a.info)

Social Event Our Monday night social will be 18:00-20:00 at the Lijiang Hall, Beijing Continental Grand Hotel (BCGH).

Our Monday night social will be 18:00-20:00 at the Lijiang Hall, Beijing Continental Grand Hotel (BCGH).

Keynotes Shadi Abou-Zahra TV Raman

Theme What happens when surfers become authors? Web author numbers are increasing; but this dilutes the technical capability of web authors - what does this mean for accessibility? How well do web authoring tools and user agents (including AT) support accessible authoring? And how accessible are these web authoring tools - whether available publicly as part of the Social Web or as corporate business tools?

What happens when surfers become authors?

Web author numbers are increasing; but this dilutes the technical capability of web authors - what does this mean for accessibility?

How well do web authoring tools and user agents (including AT) support accessible authoring?

And how accessible are these web authoring tools - whether available publicly as part of the Social Web or as corporate business tools?

Submissions 12 accepted for Technical papers (acceptance rate 36%) 7 Communication papers, 4 Web Accessibility Challenge submissions Geographically diverse, covering 5 continents: AUS, BRA, CAN, ESP, GBR, GER, GRE, ITA, POR, THA, TPE, UGA, USA

12 accepted for Technical papers (acceptance rate 36%)

7 Communication papers,

4 Web Accessibility Challenge submissions

Geographically diverse, covering 5 continents:

AUS, BRA, CAN, ESP, GBR, GER, GRE, ITA, POR, THA, TPE, UGA, USA

Process Each submission peer-reviewed by 3 reviewers We used the rebuttal process for the first time to enable responses to reviews Author rebuttals were influential in making final selections

Each submission peer-reviewed by 3 reviewers

We used the rebuttal process for the first time to enable responses to reviews

Author rebuttals were influential in making final selections

Interactive Data Comments - Critique - [email_address] Slides - http://www.slideshare.net/event/w4a2008

Comments - Critique -

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Slides - http://www.slideshare.net/event/w4a2008

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Next Year: Please check our Website: http://www.w4a.info/ DAISY files - ACM DL!! ACM SIGACCESS Membership!! ASSETS 2008 (SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility) http://www.sigaccess.org/assets08/

Next Year:

Please check our Website: http://www.w4a.info/

DAISY files - ACM DL!!

ACM SIGACCESS Membership!!

ASSETS 2008 (SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility)

http://www.sigaccess.org/assets08/