Re: W4A Call for Papers

Hi David,

This may or may not be the case. However, we are interested in the 
engineering aspects of including accessibility support at the early 
stages of the design, not only within Web pages, but also client side 
technologies such as browsers and rich media technologies such as Flash 
and SVG (as we believe Rich media such as Flash will not go away). We 
are concerned that, as the Web becomes more pervasive, accessibility 
support will not be encoded from the early stages; hence this workshop. 
Hopefully, we'll get lots of interesting opinions like yours, and we'd 
welcome your participation.

Yours,
Yeliz and Simon
(http://w4a.man.ac.uk)

David Woolley wrote:

>>Previous engineering approaches seem to have precluded the engineering 
>>of accessible systems. This is plainly unsatisfactory. Designers, 
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>I'm not in the conference circuit so I can't directly contribute to the
>conference, but to me it seems that this is not an engineering problem
>but a commercial/marketing one.  It's about time to market, and
>looking "sexy".  It's about what is perceived by non-technical management
>as the absolute minimum that will produce a healthy cash flow, in the
>relatively short term.
>