FW: Web For All Accessibility Research Conference - for Auto-WCAG research

Wilco,

 

You may want to look at this W4A 2015 Research Conference (co-located with
WWW'15 and MobiSys'15 conferences - in may 2015) to build interest,
participation and connect to grants. But also you might want to enter one of
the accessibility research competitions.....:-)

 

Katie

 

From: Gregg Vanderheiden [mailto:gregg@raisingthefloor.org] 
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 1:04 PM
To: Uaccess-L
Subject: Fwd: Web For All Accessibility Research Conference

 

 

 

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From: "Prof. Yevgen Borodin, PhD" <borodin@captivoice.com
<mailto:borodin@captivoice.com> >

Subject: Web For All Accessibility Research Conference

Date: October 13, 2014 at 11:56:50 AM CDT

To: gregg@raisingthefloor.org <mailto:gregg@raisingthefloor.org> 

 

Dear Gregg,

I would appreciate it if you could help us publicize the W4A'15 Research
Conference among your staff, clients, and subscribers. If you know any
students interested in accessibility research, please pass this along to
them, too.

We have generous travel grants for students so that they could get immersed
into the latest accessibility research and mingle with internationally
renowned researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry. 

For those interested in publishing their research, apart from the prestige
of having a paper accepted in our selective peer-reviewed conference, we
have great prizes!

Thank you,
Yevgen Borodin, PhD 
President and CEO, Charmtech Labs LLC
Research Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University

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We welcome you to submit your best work on improving accessibility of the
Web, Mobiles, and Wearables for people with and without disabilities to the
International Web for All Conference (W4A'15), conveniently co-located with
WWW'15 and MobiSys'15.

W4A'15 (www.w4a.info <http://www.w4a.info> ) will take place in Florence,
Italy (May 18-20):
- IBM will provide travel grants to both grad and undergrad students with
disabilities
- Google will sponsor 6 PhD students to participate in the Doctoral Student
Consortium 
- Intuit will award  $2,000 and $1,000 to the best technical and
communication papers
- The Paciello Group will give awards to the winners of the Accessibility
Challenge
- Submission deadlines: Jan 23rd, Notifications: March 4th

As you know, devices are getting smaller, and more of them are now wearable:
smart glasses, smart watches, and smart clothing are all working their way
into our lives and onto our bodies. These devices are online,
web-accessible, and increasingly interconnected. As with many technologies
that have come before, wearable devices present incredible opportunities for
improving accessibility for people with and without disabilities, but also
present accessibility challenges in ensuring that people are able to equally
benefit from them regardless of disability, context or situation.
Acknowledging the importance of this topic, the theme of the 12th
International Web for All Conference is "The Wearable Web".

Don't be deterred by the theme; we invite your best work on improving and
understanding access for people across the accessibility continuum. Papers
are expected to detail technical solutions and scientific insights into Web,
Mobile, and Wearable technologies addressing diverse user needs. Areas of
interest include but are not limited to the following: age, cognition,
culture, education, emotions, dexterity, disability, diversity, health,
hearing, income, infrastructure, language, learning, literacy, mobility,
situation, society, and vision.

The main keynote on the "Sense and sensibility: smartphones and wearable
technologies to support seniors" will be delivered by Lorenzo Chiari who is
a Professor and the Vice-Director of the Health Sciences and Technologies -
Interdepartmental Center for Industrial Research at the University of
Bologna. At the close of the 1st day, join us for the evening of wine, food,
and live music. The "William Laughborough" after-dinner talk "Sense and
sensibility: smartphones and wearable technologies to support seniors" will
be given by Kevin Carey, the Chair of the Royal National Institute of Blind
People, UK.

Don't come just for W4A'15 - stay for the entire week! W4A is conveniently
co-located with WWW'15 and MobiSys'15 conferences. WWW'15
(http://www.www2015.it/) is the best and the biggest Web research conference
attended by famous Web researchers and practitioners, such as Sir Tim
Berners-Lee (the inventor of the Web). MobiSys'15 is the top research
conference dealing with all aspects of mobile systems:
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015/cfp.php.